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The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
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by Rebecca Kauffman
Published Feb 2026
Read ReviewsFor fans of The Bear, Elizabeth Strout, and Jennifer Egan, The Reservation explores the loves and labors of an ensemble of more than a dozen restaurant workers as they strive to get a perfect meal to the table.
by Jeff Gordinier
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
by Boris Fishman
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.
by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsA Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography
"Deliciously bizarre and utterly American.…[A] Coen brothers movie come to life.…I couldn't put it down." —Caitlin Doughty, best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
by Dana Goodyear
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsAnything That Moves is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture, and the places where the extreme is bleeding into the mainstream.
by Bee Wilson
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsTechnology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. It can also mean the humbler tools of everyday cooking and eating: a wooden spoon and a skillet, chopsticks and forks.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
by Tyler Cowen
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsProvocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, An Economist Gets Lunch will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow.
by Mark Kurlansky
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsThe first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsThe story of Child's growth from a naive newleywed into a great cook and one of the best and most influential teachers of the twentieth century.
by Julie Powell
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsWith the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!
by Peter Mayle
Published Apr 2000
Read ReviewsA whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities, and culinary treats, liberally seasoned with a joyous mix of Gallic characters.
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