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)
Love & Saffron
Vianne (Chocolat, #0)
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food Person
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
Bröd och mjölk
Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Man Who Ate Everything
Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
173 books — 32 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

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 — 29 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

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
Jubilee by Toni Tipton-MartinWhere Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli MusicLiving Bread by Daniel LeaderThe Nomad Cocktail Book by Leo RobitschekWorld Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson
2020 James Beard Award Winners
13 books — 3 voters


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Elaine Dundy
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!' We were very hungry but we didn’t want to leave, so we ate there. We had chicken sandwiches; boy, the chicken of the century. Dry, wry, and tender, the dryness sort of rubbing against your tongue on soft, bouncy white bread with slivers of juicy wet pickles. Then we had some very salty potato chips and some olives stuffed with pimentos and some Indian nuts and some tiny pearl onions and some more ...more
Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

Anthony Bourdain
But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly. ...more
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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