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Include books by the same authorFood: A Love Story
Jim Gaffigan · 346 pages
""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Jeffrey Steingarten · 448 pages
In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl--into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called "turducken." It M
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
Jay Rayner
The Art of Eating
M.F.K. Fisher · 749 pages
This book is the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome opinions on food and those who produce it, comment upon it, and consume it are as apt today as they were several decades ago, when she composed them. Why did she choose food and hunger, she was asked, and she replied, 'When I write about hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth, and the love of it . .
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson · 560 pages
"As I stood on the roof of my house, taking in this unexpected view, it struck me how glorious it was that this was exactly how this land must have looked to centuries of people, quietly going about their daily business – eating, sleeping, having sex, endeavouring to be amused – and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mo
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
Kimberly Witherspoon, Andrew Friedman · 308 pages
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
Anne Fadiman · 220 pages
Butterflies, ice-cream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac's coffee addiction to making ice-cream from Liquid Nitrogen, she draws us into a world of hedonistic pleasures and literar
I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking
Alton Brown · 287 pages
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine
Jay McInerney · 272 pages
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Laurie Colwin · 193 pages
A series of essays by the author on cooking. Most are humerous and all are very well written. Many give very good basic advice about cooking or keeping/stocking a kitchen. In addition, recipes are included.
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
Jenni Ferrari-Adler · 280 pages
A delightful and unexpected collection of pieces by writers, foodies, and others-including Nora Ephron, Marcella Hazan, and Ann Patchett-on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.If, sooner or later, we all face the prospect of eating alone, then Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant provides the perfect set of instructions. In this unique collection, twenty-six writers an
The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
Robert Farrar Capon · 284 pages
Meditations on cooking (mainly Lamb for eight four times) and life, with other recipes as appropriate.
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle · 207 pages
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glo
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Amy Stewart · 400 pages
Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of all the extraordinary a
The Gallery of Regrettable Food
James Lileks · 192 pages
A collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Adam Gopnik · 293 pages
"From the author of Paris to the Moon--one man's quest for the meaning of food in a time obsessed with what to eat. Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, even our moralizing--"You still eat meat?" How could the land of Chef Boyardee have come so far overnight? And where can we possibly go from here? Locating the roots of our foodways in F
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Tamar Adler, Alice Waters · 261 pages
Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on instinctive cooking. By wresting cooking from doctrine and doldrums, Tamar encourages readers to begin from wherever they are, with whatever they have.
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
Shauna Niequist · 288 pages
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura · 54 pages
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace · 343 pages
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult-video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or conf
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times
Amanda Hesser · 204 pages
"New York Times Magazine"--Food editor Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers. "Eat, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of the playwrights, novelists, and journalists featured in her column.