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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
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A.J. Liebling · 185 pages
From an interview with thriller writer Jane Ciabattari on LitHub: *"In the restaurant on the Rue Saint-Augustin, M. Mirande would dazzle his juniors, French and American, by dispatching a lunch of raw Bayonne ham and fresh figs, a hot sausage in crust, spindles of filleted pike in a rich rose sauce Nantua, a leg of lamb larded with anchovies, artichokes on a pedestal of foie gras, and four or five
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Ann Mah · 273 pages
When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long post—alone. Suddenly, Ann’s vision of a romantic sojourn in the City of Light is turned upside down. So, not unlike another diplomatic wife,
Sound Bites: Eating On Tour With Franz Ferdinand
Alex Kapranos · 144 pages
Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
Katherine Wilson · 287 pages
"In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this enchantingly warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
"A book about the author's quest to recreate the dishes of her native Singapore during one Lunar Calendar year, as a way to connect food and family with her sense of home"--
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard · 322 pages
"Tells the story of falling in love with a Frenchman and moving to the world's most romantic city. Elizabeth Bard finds that learning to cook and building a new life have a lot in common."--Publisher's description.
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
Georgeanne Brennan · 224 pages
Provence has always been a very special place for Georgeanne Brennan. She discovered it as a student in Aix and returned several years later with her husband and young daughter to buy a small farmhouse deep in the backcountry. Now, more than thirty years later, Brennan tells the vivid and fulfilling story of her life en Provence.
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Annia Ciezadlo
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
David Lebovitz · 282 pages
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discov
From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
Michael S. Sanders · 344 pages
How to Eat a Small Country: A Family's Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time
Amy Finley · 292 pages
Amy Finley explains her decision to leave her growing Food Network television career in order to move to France with her family and work out the problems in her marriage that began when she won a contest that put her on the path to becoming a celebrity chef.
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Jen Lin-Liu · 398 pages
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
Jennifer Klinec · 230 pages
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior, someone who didn't come to him pure and untouched. I was an amusing visitor from another world and soon enough I should return to
Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
Amy Thomas
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Michael Paterniti · 349 pages
In the picturesque village of Guzma n, Spain, in a cave on the edge of town, there is a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." This is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets--usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a Spanish cheesemaker as he spun an
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Bill Buford · 336 pages
Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. He describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder
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
A Thousand Days In Venice
Marlena de Blasi · 272 pages
Gordon Ramsay's Uncharted: A Culinary Adventure With 60 Recipes From Around the Globe
Gordon Ramsay · 368 pages
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Ruth Reichl · 320 pages
Warm, very descriptive of mouth watering food interspersed with receipes. A story of food and her life which was quite an exciting one of a restaurant critic.
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler · 313 pages
"A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her taxista
Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 800 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More
Jane Stern, Michael Stern · 569 pages
American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
Rowan Jacobsen · 280 pages
"Why does honey from the tupelo-lined banks of the Apalachicola River have a kick of cinnamon unlike any other? Why is salmon from Alaska's Yukon River the richest in the world? Why does one underground cave in Greensboro, Vermont, produce many of the country's most intense cheeses? The answer is terroir (tare-WAHR), the "taste of place." Originally used by the French to describe the way local con