Food Writing

Food writing is writing that focuses on the topic of food, both widely and narrowly defined, and includes work by food critics and food historians.

What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
I Regret Almost Everything
Love & Saffron
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
Food Person
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Bröd och mjölk
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
My Life in France
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Man Who Ate Everything
La Cucina by The Italian Academy of CuisineEssentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella HazanBeyond the Pasta; Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian ... by Mark    LeslieWhy Italians Love to Talk About Food by Yelena KostyukovichPasta, Pane, Vino by Matt Goulding
Top Books About Italian Food
113 books — 15 voters
Plenty by Yotam OttolenghiJoan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook by Joan NathanJerusalem by Yotam OttolenghiModern Jewish Cooking by Leah KoenigThe Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
Best Jewish Cookbooks
51 books — 8 voters

I Am a Filipino by Nicole Ponseca7000 Islands by Yasmin NewmanMilkier Pigs & Violet Gold by Bryan KohA Simple Filipino Cookbook by Pinoy CookbooksUnder Coconut Skies by Yasmin Newman
Best Filipino Cookbooks
15 books — 4 voters
The Way to Cook by Julia ChildCheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking by Cheryl DayZoë Bakes Cakes by Zoë FrançoisAnd for Mains by Brady NicolaThe Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists by America's Test Kitchen Kids
2022 IACP Award Winners
18 books — 2 voters

Extra Virginity by Tom MuellerThe Food Lab by J. Kenji López-AltMycophilia by Eugenia BoneCaffeinated by Murray  CarpenterWhy Calories Count by Marion Nestle
Books related to Gastropod podcast
110 books — 10 voters
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella HazanThe Silver Spoon by Clelia D'OnofrioThe Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto KasperMarcella's Italian Kitchen by Marcella HazanMade in Italy by Giorgio Locatelli
Best Italian Cookbooks
156 books — 58 voters


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Once upon a time, everything baked in an oven that was not bread was 'pie'. ...more
Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History

Anthony Bourdain
The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years! ...more
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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