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
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

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia DunlopEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopServe the People by Jen Lin-LiuThe Breath of a Wok by Grace YoungThe Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
CHINESE Food Writing & Cookbooks
50 books — 20 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

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
Colombiana by Mariana VelásquezArt of South American Cooking by Felipe Rojas-LombarPeru by Gastón AcurioLima by Virgilio MartínezSeven Fires by Francis Mallmann
Best South American Cookbooks
42 books — 1 voter


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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

Anthony Bourdain
The life of the cook was a life of adventure, looting, pillaging and rock-and-rolling through life with a carefree disregard for all conventional morality. It looked pretty damn good to me on the other side of the line.
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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