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
Vianne (Chocolat, #0)
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Bröd och mjölk
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat ― A Culinary Origins Book
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence
Food Person
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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
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
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelBlackberry Pie Murder by Joanne FlukeTender at the Bone by Ruth ReichlUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances MayesThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Books that Cook (stories with recipes)
498 books — 79 voters

Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
176 books — 33 voters
Japanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThe Just Bento Cookbook by Makiko ItohHarumi's Japanese Cooking by Harumi KuriharaAuthentic Japanese Food Cookbook by Daniel HumphreysWashoku by Elizabeth Andoh
Best Japanese Cookbooks in English
40 books — 30 voters


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Anthony Bourdain
“ Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh. ...more ”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Karl Wiggins
“ I’ve sat in restaurants and viewed the food on the plate as I would a half-blooded mongrel. I may feel sorry for it and given time even get to like it a little, but it’s never going to really gain my affections. The plate in front of you should tantalize, seduce and enchant you. It should be a cheeky devil, a minx, a hussy even, but never a desperado ”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

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