Each 4-page entry includes a portrait of the cook posing with the ingredients for her dish in her kitchen or dining room, a close-up of the finished cuisine, a brief story about the cook and her family, and the recipe for the dish. The dishes range from caterpillars in tomato sauce or iguana with rice and beans to shark in coconut soup or Schweinebraten mit Sp�atzle. "Based on the slideshow that captured the world's attention, Gabriele Galimberti's...

"Based on the blog with more than a million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the spirit of a city. In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their...