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
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
51 books — 21 voters
Japanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThe Just Bento Cookbook by Makiko ItohHarumi's Japanese Cooking by Harumi KuriharaAuthentic Japanese Food Cookbook by Daniel HumphreysWashoku by Elizabeth Andoh
Best Japanese Cookbooks in English
40 books — 30 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Art of Eating by M.F.K. FisherFood Matters by Mark BittmanAn Everlasting Meal by Tamar AdlerThe Cinnamon Recipe Book by Valeria Ray
Sweet Food Writing
268 books — 25 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)
498 books — 79 voters

Traditional Portuguese Cooking by Maria de Lourdes ModestoAuthentic Portuguese Cooking by Ana Patuleia OrtinsPimentos and Piri Piri by Carla AzevedoPortuguese Homestyle Cooking by Ana Patuleia OrtinsTaste Portugal | 101 easy Portuguese recipes by Maria Dias
Best Portuguese Cookbooks
40 books — 4 voters
Of Course It’s Good! by Jessica SecrestDon't Think About Dinner by Jenn LuekePlant Powered Plus by Will BulsiewiczBig Bites by Kat AshmoreMaxi's Kitchen by Maxine Sharf
Cookbooks of 2026 (NON-FICTION)
11 books — 1 voter


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