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Culinary Books
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 373,777 ratings — published 2000
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.39 — 91,916 ratings — published 2017
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,633 ratings — published 2008
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,235 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,053 ratings — published 2006
Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.13 — 197,539 ratings — published 1931
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,196 ratings — published 1961
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,362 ratings — published 2015
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,040 ratings — published 2006
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,413 ratings — published 2001
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.94 — 48,131 ratings — published 2005
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,315 ratings — published 2008
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,946 ratings — published 2001
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,118 ratings — published 2010
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,242 ratings — published 2006
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.71 — 160,703 ratings — published 2005
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,903 ratings — published 1974
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,894 ratings — published 2013
The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,928 ratings — published 1999
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,157 ratings — published 1997
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,188 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,990 ratings — published 2007
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,775 ratings — published 1938
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.00 — 101,848 ratings — published 1998
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 95,519 ratings — published 2021
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,101 ratings — published 2009
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,532 ratings — published 1990
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,588 ratings — published 2014
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,309 ratings — published 2001
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.68 — 71,460 ratings — published 2000
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,829 ratings — published 2019
Yes, Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,664 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,164 ratings — published 1954
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.70 — 10,628 ratings — published 2007
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.42 — 11,590 ratings — published 2012
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,533 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,193 ratings — published 1997
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,378 ratings — published 2002
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,770 ratings — published 1976
Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,968 ratings — published 1992
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.15 — 139,405 ratings — published 1953
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,353 ratings — published 2000
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,677 ratings — published 2009
Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,177 ratings — published 2009
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,764 ratings — published 2003
The Last Suppers (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,272 ratings — published 1994
The Silver Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,263 ratings — published 1950
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,120 ratings — published 2017
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,288 ratings — published 2012
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,110 ratings — published 2020
“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered over his advice. What did it mean to “live the artist’s life?” I finally came to realize that there were no written codes, no hard and fast rules. You didn’t have to starve in a garret or drink yourself to death or cut off your ear. You didn’t even have to literally “make art” physically. The art was your life—your values, your outlook, your passions, your point of view. It was the things you cherished, whether they were people or places or ideas.”
― The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
― The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
“Standing there…it was as if Victorine was looking right through time, staring straight at me. I could almost hear her voice. She’s been erased from history and it just seems so wrong. I felt she was daring me to do something about it.”
“…she put the napkin over her head and the tiny creature [ortolan] into her mouth. Then every other thought was driven from her head by the sheer physical effect of the hot bird burning her overstuffed mouth…Her teeth came down and a spurt of juice shot across her tongue. She almost jumped out of her seat; the flavor was so strong, so primal. She chewed again and the sound of bones crunching clanged in her ears….It was all hazelnuts, sweet-edged with bitter…figs, Armagnac, blood shot through her body. Another shatter of bone and she was tasting dark meat—the thigh perhaps—with its gamey flavor.”
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“…she put the napkin over her head and the tiny creature [ortolan] into her mouth. Then every other thought was driven from her head by the sheer physical effect of the hot bird burning her overstuffed mouth…Her teeth came down and a spurt of juice shot across her tongue. She almost jumped out of her seat; the flavor was so strong, so primal. She chewed again and the sound of bones crunching clanged in her ears….It was all hazelnuts, sweet-edged with bitter…figs, Armagnac, blood shot through her body. Another shatter of bone and she was tasting dark meat—the thigh perhaps—with its gamey flavor.”
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