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)
Food Person
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Love & Saffron
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Eat a Peach
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
Bröd och mjölk
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
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
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
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
Crazy Dumplings by Amanda   RobertsEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopLand of Fish and Rice by Fuchsia DunlopThe Breath of a Wok by Grace YoungThe Key to Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo
Best Chinese Cookbooks
47 books — 8 voters

Memories of Philippine Kitchens by Amy BesaTikim by Doreen G. FernandezKulinarya by Glenda Rosales BarrettoLet's Cook With Nora by Nora V. DazaI Am a Filipino by Nicole Ponseca
Must-Read Filipino Cookbooks
6 books — 3 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)
494 books — 78 voters


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Karl Wiggins
I’ve sat in restaurants and viewed the food on the plate as I would a half-blooded mongrel. I may feel sorry for it and given time even get to like it a little, but it’s never going to really gain my affections. The plate in front of you should tantalize, seduce and enchant you. It should be a cheeky devil, a minx, a hussy even, but never a desperado
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Bee Wilson
You are unlikely to eat something if you don’t know what it is.
Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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