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)
Love & Saffron
Vianne (Chocolat, #0)
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food Person
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
Bröd och mjölk
Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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
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
Mosquito Supper Club by Melissa M. MartinKiin by Nuit RegularDessert Person by Claire SaffitzSnacking Cakes by Yossy ArefiJikoni by Ravinder Bhogal
2021 IACP Award Winners
18 books — 2 voters

Tava by Irina  GeorgescuThe Bartender's Manifesto by Toby MaloneyExploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake by Nancy MatsumotoThe Perfect Loaf by Maurizio LeoEating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
2023 James Beard Award Winners
16 books — 1 voter
My Paris Kitchen by David LebovitzMastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildFrench Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth DavidThe Cooking Of Southwest France by Paula WolfertPatricia Wells at Home in Provence by Patricia Wells
Best French Cookbooks
73 books — 4 voters

The Food of Spain by Claudia RodenTapas by Penelope CasasThe Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope CasasLa Cocina de Mama by Penelope CasasGrape, Olive, Pig by Matt Goulding
Best Spanish Cookbooks
72 books — 10 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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M.F.K. Fisher
I was beginning to believe that it is foolish and perhaps pretentious and often boring, as well as damnably expensive, to make a meal of four or six courses just because the guests who are to eat it have always been used to that many. Let them try eating two or three things, I said, so plentiful and so interesting and so well cooked that they will be satisfied. And if they are not satisfied, let them stay away from our table, and our leisurely comfortable friendship at that table. I talked like ...more
M.F.K. Fisher, Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon

Bee Wilson
No one is too busy to cook.
Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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