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.

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
Vianne (Chocolat, #0)
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food Person
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
Bröd och mjölk
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
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment 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
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
I Am a Filipino by Nicole Ponseca7000 Islands by Yasmin NewmanMilkier Pigs & Violet Gold by Bryan KohA Simple Filipino Cookbook by Pinoy CookbooksUnder Coconut Skies by Yasmin Newman
Best Filipino Cookbooks
15 books — 4 voters
So Easy So Good by Kylie SakaidaSuper-Italian by Giada De LaurentiisBuns by Louise HurstThere’s Always Room at the Table by Kaleb WyseShred Happens by Arash Hashemi
Cookbooks of 2025 (NON-FICTION)
74 books — 3 voters

From My Mexican Kitchen by Diana KennedyThe Mexican Home Kitchen by Mely MartinezThe Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana KennedyYucatán by David SterlingPati's Mexican Table by Pati Jinich
Best Mexican Cookbooks
55 books — 15 voters
Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina ChoThe Way of the Cocktail by Julia MomoséGirly Drinks by Mallory O'MearaEveryone's Table by Gregory GourdetIn Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan
2022 James Beard Award Winners
13 books — 2 voters


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Ruby Tandoh
Jane Grigson joined the Observer magazine in the summer of 1968. Her first column was about strawberries. She wrote a recipe for strawberry barquettes-- small pastry boats filled with fruit and lacquered with redcurrant jam so that they looked like jewels. There was another for strawberry brulée in a sweet sablé shell, and coeur à la crème-- a cream pudding set in a heart-shaped mould and encircled with fruit. 'In Venice, in the season of Alpine strawberries...' she wrote, and it didn't really m ...more
Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

Maisy Heart
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