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)
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Vianne (Chocolat, #0)
Food Person
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Bröd och mjölk
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
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
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
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Jubilee by Toni Tipton-MartinWhere Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli MusicLiving Bread by Daniel LeaderThe Nomad Cocktail Book by Leo RobitschekWorld Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson
2020 James Beard Award Winners
13 books — 3 voters
Palestine on a Plate by Joudie KallaBaladi by Joudie KallaFalastin by Sami TamimiCraving Palestine Cookbook by Lama BazzariDine in Palestine by Heifa Odeh
Best Palestinian Cookbooks
17 books — 5 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
158 books — 60 voters
Sweet Hands by Ramin GaneshramThe Cuban Table by Ana Sofia PeláezThe Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking by Elisabeth Lambert OrtizThe Real Taste of Jamaica by Enid DonaldsonCocina criolla by Empresas Cucuye Inc.
Best Caribbean Cookbooks
111 books — 6 voters

The Food of Morocco by Paula WolfertThe Modern Tagine Cookbook by Ghillie BasanFlavors of Morocco by Ghillie BasanCasablanca by Nargisse BenkabbouCooking at the Kasbah by Kitty Morse
Best Moroccan Cookbooks
13 books — 2 voters
False Tongues and Sunday Bread by Copeland MarksAmalia's Guatemalan Kitchen - Gourmet Cuisine with a Cultural... by Amalia Moreno-DamgaardFavorite Recipes from Guatemala by Laura Lynn Woodward (1999)... by Laura Lynn WoodwardA Culinary Tour of Central America by Tony TrentDelicious El Salvador by Alicia Maher
Best Central American Cookbooks
29 books — 4 voters


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Anthony Bourdain
“ What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way. ...more ”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain
“ Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. ...more ”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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