Food Writing category: 1790 books
A Bite-Sized History of France
Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Very successful genre: From Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence to A.J. Liebling’s Between Meals, from Graham Robb’s Discovery of France to Julia Child’s My Life in France, books that allow the reader to live vicariously Through the writer’s experience with French food and culture have a strong...
Devoured
From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies - How What We Eat Defines Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.
Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening...
by Bob Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A journey into the surprising science behind our flavor senses.
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don’t...
by Tom Standage
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts an enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition,...
It Was Me All Along
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A yet heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant,...
My Kitchen Year
136 Recipes That Saved My Life: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men’s Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Publishers Weekly
In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent company. No one was...
Cooking and Screaming
Finding My Own Recipe for Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
An inspiring, recipe-filled memoir about loss, recovery, and finding oneself through food and cooking.
"I rose from my wheelchair slowly, using the arms of the seat to steady myself; I managed to lift my weighty limbs and limp the three steps to the counter. Stirring left-handed, I did not...
The Tenth Muse
My Life in Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir.
Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning...
Casablanca
My Moroccan Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
OBSERVER RISING STAR IN FOOD 2018
'a book that is infused with the flavours of Morocco and is as accessible as it is inspiring' - Nigella Lawson
'It practically sings with aromatic spices and ingredients' - Delicious.
'Breathes new life into Moroccan food' - BBC Good Food
Morocco is one of the top...
Eating History
Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts-in delicious detail-the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients...
The Gourmands' Way
Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France
During les trente glorieuses—a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis—Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish,...
The Measure of My Powers
A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TASTE CANADA AWARDS AND THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE. For fans of Eat Pray Love, Wild, and H is for Hawk, The Measure of My Powers is the story of one woman's search for self-love, experienced through food and travel.
"With...
Talking with My Mouth Full
My Life as a Professional Eater
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable advice-make a list of what you love to do, and...
From Hardtack to Homefries
An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history. As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story -- whether it relates to...