A Chef's Library

Turnrow Book Co. invites you to join a new culinary book club for readers and collectors of food books... A Chef's Library

Each month we'll select a top new cookbook or exceptional work of food writing and send you a signed first edition.There is no membership fee, only the cover price of the book (typically $25-$45) and a $6 shipping charge.

We offer two subscriptions:
– A Chef's Premium Library, featuring 12 titles a year (both cookbooks and food writing) and a free bonus book at the end of the year.
– The Cookbook Library, featuring our 6-8 cookbook picks for the year.

In addition to supplying your kitchen library with the best new culinary books every month, we'll wrap the book jackets in splatter-proof mylar covers.

Some of the 2007 selections include Cat Cora's Cooking from the Hip, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, and Dave Pasternack's The Young Man and the Sea and coming fall 2007, The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters. For more information on the club, contact us at turnrow@turnrowbooks.com or 888-453-5995.


Dear Home Chef,

The foundation of any great kitchen is knowledge. Whether you're an aspiring cook or a seasoned pro, the more you learn about food, the more fun you'll have cooking. It is in this spirit that Turnrow Book Co. invites you to join A Chef's Library, a culinary book club that seeks to enhance your knowledge of cooking and distinguish your kitchen with a rich, diverse and valuable library of food books.

There's no better time to be reading about food.Writers like Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl and Bill Buford have contributed books on food that rank with today's best literature, while creative chefs produce ever more elaborate cookbooks.We take great interest in finding the best, most useful food books as they are published. As an added value, we seek out the chefs and authors to sign first edition copies for you. Already we've found the chefs and writers to be enthusiastic, as there is no club quite like A Chef's Library.

Among our first selections was The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. The book won numerous cookbook awards, including the prestigious James Beard Foundation's Cookbook of the Year award. After receiving its many honors, a signed first edition, which our club members bought at retail price ($35), was selling for over $150. This highly collectible work represents how A Chef's Library is both a reputable source for quality cookbooks as well as an investment.

Whether you're building your own kitchen library or looking for a unique and treasured gift that keeps giving, consider joining A Chef's Library. We hope that your kitchen experience is heightened by the presence of great ideas and the beauty of fine books.