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Food Writing
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Nonfiction books about eating, cooking, and restaurants.
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Best Food Writing 2012 Epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet, gourmand, glutton-whatever term you embrace, our cultural fascination with food shows no sign of waning. And as in previous years, Best Food Writing 2012 is the place to go for heaping helpings of the most provocative, entertaining, delicious food writing of the year. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Eat Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times 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. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Achatz, Grant Life On the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness Facing Death and Redefining the Way We Eat Achatz, "one of America's great chefs" (Vogue), shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown--and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. "Life, on the Line" is also a book about survival, about nurturing creativity, and about profound friendship. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Apple, R. W. Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr. This collection of essays from legendary "New York Times" reporter Johnny Apple recounts extraordinary meals and little-known facts behind some of the world's most excellent foods. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Bourdain, Anthony No Reservations: Around the World On an Empty Stomach The host of the Travel Channel series No Reservations provides a behind-the-scenes account of his global culinary adventures, from New Jersey to New Zealand, offering commentary on food in every corner of the globe. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Buford, Bill Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany A staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Among the Thugs offers an exuberant, witty account of his entry into the world of a professional cook-in-training, documenting his experiences in the kitchen of Mario Batali's acclaimed restaurant Babbo, his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers, his relationship with Batali, and his immersion in the world of food. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Child, Julia My Life in France A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef." 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Epstein, Jason Eating: A Memoir Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, beginning with his childhood summers in Maine, where his decision to improve upon his grandmother's chicken pot pie that led to a lifetime at the stove. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Hamilton, Gabrielle Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Above all she sought to try and create a family like the one that was upended when her parents divorced. This is a story of family, food, and writing. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Jones, Judith The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food Judith Jones edits both John Updike and Anne Tyler, but her fame will always reside in the the fact that she created a food revolution in America as editor to Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, James Beard, and Madhur Jaffrey to name a few. This memoir will delight foodies, Francophiles, and lovers of literary fiction. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Kurlansky, Mark The Food of a Younger Land Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation’s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Melucci, Giulia I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti A Brooklyn-based publicist's account of her relationships gone awry, and the food that sustained her through it all. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Menzel, Peter What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets A photographic collection with stories of 80 people and the food they eat over the course of one day, organized by total daily calorie count and including detailed food lists. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Ode, Kim Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club: Recipes, Tips, Stories Members of the St. Paul Bread Club share their recipes and their stories along with a few of the group's secrets to the perfect loaf. A delightful book for both beginning and expert bakers and any reader who enjoys fine writing. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Ode, Kim Rhubarb Renaissance Kim Ode invites us to join her in celebrating rhubarb as one of the great flavours of horticulture. In a lively re-introduction to this versatile vegetable, over fifty creative recipes highlight uses from savoury to sweet. Notes on rhubarb's historic medicinal uses, preservation advice, and kitchen basics including foundation recipes for roasted rhubarb set up a selection of appetisers, entrées, desserts, and breads. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Pepin, Jacques The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen The man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain. 2003 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Pollan, Michael Cooked : a Natural History of Transformation "In Cooked, Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the cook" --Provided by publisher. 2013 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Pollan, Michael In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not real. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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