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)
I Regret Almost Everything
Love & Saffron
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food Person
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
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
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
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
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
My Life in France
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
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
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
La Cucina by The Italian Academy of CuisineEssentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella HazanBeyond the Pasta; Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian ... by Mark    LeslieWhy Italians Love to Talk About Food by Yelena KostyukovichPasta, Pane, Vino by Matt Goulding
Top Books About Italian Food
113 books — 15 voters

Falastin by Sami TamimiPalestine on a Plate by Joudie KallaBaladi by Joudie KallaCraving Palestine Cookbook by Lama BazzariDine in Palestine by Heifa Odeh
Best Palestinian Cookbooks
17 books — 6 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)
495 books — 79 voters

The Way to Cook by Julia ChildCheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking by Cheryl DayZoë Bakes Cakes by Zoë FrançoisAnd for Mains by Brady NicolaThe Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists by America's Test Kitchen Kids
2022 IACP Award Winners
18 books — 2 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


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Student life is tough anywhere, and more so, away from the support systems one is used to at home. Even for the most adaptable among us, in alien surroundings, eating food that is familiar is comforting.
Rukmini Srinivas, Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food

Ruby Tandoh
Margaret and Jane didn't really get non-European food, even at a time when cooking from former and contemporary colonies-- India, Hong Kong at the time, Jamaica, Trinidad-- was working deeper into the canon. And they could be out of touch-- Margaret's bon viveur lifestyle, Jane's cottagecore cave house in rural France. Like a lot of food writers, Jane was interested in a fantasy kind of peasantry, but not the actual realities of shopping in a Tesco now. ...more
Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

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