4.06 avg rating — 59,276 ratings

"Stunning hypothesis about how plants actually use us to help them propagate..."

3.85 avg rating — 7,655 ratings

"Babette throws a dinner party for the god-fearing sisters who took her in..."

4.02 avg rating — 166,253 ratings

"The title says it all, but what could be better than Paris in the 20s?"

3.62 avg rating — 84,474 ratings

"the heroine writes about food, and while her husband philanders, she cooks..."

4.03 avg rating — 989,008 ratings

"Steinbeck's classic novel of the Depression changed the way many people viewed hunger & the plight of migrant farm workers..."

4.05 avg rating — 101 ratings

""stories of food during wartime" including a profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea, which describes Kim’s exacting standards for gourmet fare while his country dies of starvation..."

3.87 avg rating — 38,583 ratings

"a daughter re-creates dishes from a scrap book of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother, searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor... "

3.96 avg rating — 130,955 ratings

"a small French town gets turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner..."

4.19 avg rating — 806,443 ratings

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island..."

3.97 avg rating — 249 ratings

"All the pleasures of a summer's bluefishing off Martha's Vineyard "

3.65 avg rating — 3,129 ratings

"Linda Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain and moved back home, to a tiny island off the Maine coast, to pursue a simpler life as a lobsterman - ha!"

3.81 avg rating — 33,609 ratings

"where drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture... "

4.30 avg rating — 535 ratings

"the screenplay of a conversation between two friends, one searching for the meaning of life, the other for the next meal... "

3.21 avg rating — 174,911 ratings

"A summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant, where between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains polite - but the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened..."