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
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 Morocco by Paula WolfertThe Modern Tagine Cookbook by Ghillie BasanFlavors of Morocco by Ghillie BasanCasablanca by Nargisse BenkabbouCooking at the Kasbah by Kitty Morse
Best Moroccan Cookbooks
13 books — 2 voters

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
Crazy Dumplings by Amanda   RobertsEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopLand of Fish and Rice by Fuchsia DunlopPei Mei's Chinese Cookbook Volume I [Pei mei shi pu (1)] by Peimei FuThe Breath of a Wok by Grace Young
Best Chinese Cookbooks
49 books — 11 voters

Palestine on a Plate by Joudie KallaBaladi by Joudie KallaFalastin by Sami TamimiCraving Palestine Cookbook by Lama BazzariDine in Palestine by Heifa Odeh
Best Palestinian Cookbooks
17 books — 5 voters
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


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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

Documenting what I do in the kitchen can feel like the task of recording almost nothing. But it is the nothing I am doing, and do almost every day, and have been doing every day for over a decade. It is the nothing that has been part of almost every social interaction of my life as an adult and through which I have come to know almost all the people I love. It is the nothing through which I have been sustained and transformed.
Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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