We love food books. Once, when reading Heat by Bill Buford on vacation, we couldn’t agree on who got to finish the book first. So we sat side-by-side and read it at the same time, bursting into simultaneous fits of giggle at his stories of kitchen triumphs and disasters. Here are some of our favorites that will also make you laugh, cry, want to get up and do something or want to make you change the way you eat. Mostly though, we hope they will make you very hungry…
(links, descriptions, photos, and many more books to come)
Fascinating Food Memoirs and Autobiographies
Heat, An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, Bill Buford
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, Judith Jones
My Year in France, Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme
How I Learned To Cook: Culinary Educations from the World’s Greatest Chefs, Kimberly Wetherspoon
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, Kim Sunee
Books on Sustainability and Food Production That Everyone Should Read
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Food Non-Fiction
The United States of Arugula: The Sun-Dried, Cold-Pressed, Dark-Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution, David Kamp
Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky
Eating England, Hattie Ellis
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard W. Wrangham
Cookbooks with Worthwhile Reading Bits
On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee
Homegrown: Food Champions of England’s Northwest
A Taste of the Country, Jimmy Doherty
Momofuku, David Chang and Peter Meehan
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