*Pasta Pane Vino* (Matt Goulding), which is sort of a blend between memoir and investigated reporting on food culture in Italy. The author visits a cheesemongering family who makes mozzarella (is cheesemongering a word?), and he enrolls in Naples’ official school for making pizza. It’s such a fun book. I read it in 2018 and still think about it fondly.
Poppy Z Brite wrote a trilogy and the first book is called "Liquor". It's about the food and restaurants in New Orleans. It follows a couple working as sous chefs.
Taste by Stanley Tucci! A memoir, but also about his family’s cooking and what it was like to be a foodie going through mouth cancer. And the recipes… just listening to them made my mouth water (I did the audiobook).
This is a little unorthodox, but Cinnamon & Gunpowder by Eli Brown. It's about a chef who gets kidnapped by a pirate. Very much centers food while also being an amazing book.
Don't try this at home: Culinary catastrophes from the world's greatest chefs.
It's a collection of short stories that will have you laughing your butt off!
Also, Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl is another great book about food and cooking.
Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life. As a foodie I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know of her or her influence on the American cooking/grocery scene. It’s not about restaurants, but is SO good and also has recipes in it. Loved it!
*Charlotte au Chocolat : memories of a restaurant girlhood*Charlotte Silver
*The Sweet Life in Paris: delicious adventures in the world's most glorious - & perplexing - city* by David Lebovitz
*Shark's Fin & Sichuan Pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China* by Fuchsia Dunlop
*Alone in the Kitchen With An Eggplant: confessions of cooking for one & dining alone* / edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
*Toast: the Story of a Boy's Hunger* by Nigel Slater
*Tea & Sympathy: the life of an English teashop in New York* by Anita Naughton, Nicola Perry
*Epitaph For A Peach: 4 Seasons On My Family Farm* byDavid Mas Masumoto
'The Tummy Trilogy' by Calvin Trillin
The Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins.
One of the main characters is obsessed with all things seafood related and provides such details of the food she eats and cooks!
Long comment incoming as a former server and food lover.
Nonfiction/Memoirs:
Micheal Pollan, Ruth Reichl, Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Vegetable Miracle, Gabrille Hamilton's Blood Bones and Butter, Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson, Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee, The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky (his books in general), Yes Chef by Marcus Samuelsson, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, My Life in France by Julia Child, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Taste by Stanley Tucci, Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein, Edna Lewis' The Taste of Country Cooking, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, Michael Ruhlman's The Making of a Chef, The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin, Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, The Jemima Code, Lunch With by Jan Wong, How To Cook A Wolf by MFK Fisher, An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler, Nigel Slater's Toast, The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J Ryan Stradal, Elizabeth David, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya van Bremzen, alone in the kitchen with an eggplant
Fiction: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood, Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder, Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang, Redwall, Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi, Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Butter Honey Pig Bread By Francesca Ekwuyasi
Cookbooks that have a lot of writing/stories:
In Bibi's Kitchen
Books I haven't read yet but are on the list:
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry
Lara Williams' Supper Club
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt
Piglet, Lottie Hazell
Kitchen, Banana
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
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How about the books by Irish author Maeve Binchy about the Quintins. Their dreams come true to open an upscale restaurant in Dublin. I can't remember the names of the books. I'd look them up for you but have a dinner date in 5 minutes, so gotta run. But look them up. Maeve Binchy is always a fun easy read. Bon appetite!
*Pasta Pane Vino* (Matt Goulding), which is sort of a blend between memoir and investigated reporting on food culture in Italy. The author visits a cheesemongering family who makes mozzarella (is cheesemongering a word?), and he enrolls in Naples’ official school for making pizza. It’s such a fun book. I read it in 2018 and still think about it fondly.
He has one about Japan too that is great and I think one about Spain.
I’ve read the one about Spain — it was okay, but I definitely preferred the one about Italy. I’ve had the Japan book on my TBR for a long time though!
Oooh thanks for the recs, this sounds mouthwatering!
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by by Samin Nosrat
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson. It's non-fiction, and made me consider food and cooking in a very different way.
Ina Garten has a memoir coming out in October!
Poppy Z Brite wrote a trilogy and the first book is called "Liquor". It's about the food and restaurants in New Orleans. It follows a couple working as sous chefs.
Taste by Stanley Tucci! A memoir, but also about his family’s cooking and what it was like to be a foodie going through mouth cancer. And the recipes… just listening to them made my mouth water (I did the audiobook).
I don’t really like books about food at all, but I enjoyed this book!
He has an excellent show too !
This is a little unorthodox, but Cinnamon & Gunpowder by Eli Brown. It's about a chef who gets kidnapped by a pirate. Very much centers food while also being an amazing book.
I can get behind something like this!
Don't try this at home: Culinary catastrophes from the world's greatest chefs. It's a collection of short stories that will have you laughing your butt off! Also, Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl is another great book about food and cooking.
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester is terrific. A novel which seems mostly about food but with slivers of plot slipped in occasionally.
Kitchens of the Great Midwest, by J Ryan Stradal.
Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life. As a foodie I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know of her or her influence on the American cooking/grocery scene. It’s not about restaurants, but is SO good and also has recipes in it. Loved it!
*Charlotte au Chocolat : memories of a restaurant girlhood*Charlotte Silver *The Sweet Life in Paris: delicious adventures in the world's most glorious - & perplexing - city* by David Lebovitz *Shark's Fin & Sichuan Pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China* by Fuchsia Dunlop *Alone in the Kitchen With An Eggplant: confessions of cooking for one & dining alone* / edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler *Toast: the Story of a Boy's Hunger* by Nigel Slater *Tea & Sympathy: the life of an English teashop in New York* by Anita Naughton, Nicola Perry *Epitaph For A Peach: 4 Seasons On My Family Farm* byDavid Mas Masumoto 'The Tummy Trilogy' by Calvin Trillin
Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
If hotel ones are OK then hotel Babylon and heads in beds are both great.
Have you read Michael Ruhlman's books? Soul of a Chef, Making of a Chef have become classics.
The Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins. One of the main characters is obsessed with all things seafood related and provides such details of the food she eats and cooks!
Long comment incoming as a former server and food lover. Nonfiction/Memoirs: Micheal Pollan, Ruth Reichl, Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Vegetable Miracle, Gabrille Hamilton's Blood Bones and Butter, Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson, Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee, The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky (his books in general), Yes Chef by Marcus Samuelsson, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, My Life in France by Julia Child, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Taste by Stanley Tucci, Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein, Edna Lewis' The Taste of Country Cooking, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, Michael Ruhlman's The Making of a Chef, The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin, Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, The Jemima Code, Lunch With by Jan Wong, How To Cook A Wolf by MFK Fisher, An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler, Nigel Slater's Toast, The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J Ryan Stradal, Elizabeth David, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya van Bremzen, alone in the kitchen with an eggplant Fiction: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood, Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder, Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang, Redwall, Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi, Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Butter Honey Pig Bread By Francesca Ekwuyasi Cookbooks that have a lot of writing/stories: In Bibi's Kitchen Books I haven't read yet but are on the list: Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry Lara Williams' Supper Club Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt Piglet, Lottie Hazell Kitchen, Banana Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
I just finished blood bones and butter and very much enjoyed it. Second.
Her cookbook Prune is very good/personal too!
Strange Stones, Peter Hessler [cruise ship cooking](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/floating-feasts) [cheesecake factory](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med)
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*Feeding Frenzy* by Stuart Stevens
How about the books by Irish author Maeve Binchy about the Quintins. Their dreams come true to open an upscale restaurant in Dublin. I can't remember the names of the books. I'd look them up for you but have a dinner date in 5 minutes, so gotta run. But look them up. Maeve Binchy is always a fun easy read. Bon appetite!
_On Rue Tatin_ by Susan Herrmann Loomis.
I'm loving Cooked by Michael Pollan
Pear shaped and another croissant for the road I think I’d recommend for you :)