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Gastronomy Books
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 380,470 ratings — published 2000
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,286 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,611 ratings — published 2006
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.39 — 94,388 ratings — published 2017
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,593 ratings — published 2010
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,709 ratings — published 1825
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,605 ratings — published 2008
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,844 ratings — published 2008
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,018 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,164 ratings — published 1954
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 31,341 ratings — published 2001
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 96,881 ratings — published 2021
The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery: For Connoisseurs, Chefs, Epicures Complete With 2973 Recipes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,483 ratings — published 1921
The Flavour Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,191 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,196 ratings — published 1997
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,902 ratings — published 1974
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,809 ratings — published 2002
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,278 ratings — published 2007
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,783 ratings — published 2015
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,987 ratings — published 2013
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,358 ratings — published 2012
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 48,375 ratings — published 2005
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,289 ratings — published 2006
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,359 ratings — published 2006
Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,102 ratings — published 2003
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,776 ratings — published 1938
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,273 ratings — published 2020
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,905 ratings — published 1961
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,364 ratings — published 2000
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,306 ratings — published 1998
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,640 ratings — published 2005
The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,854 ratings — published 2012
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,936 ratings — published 2007
The Gastronomical Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,264 ratings — published 1943
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,151 ratings — published 2017
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,585 ratings — published 2001
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,783 ratings — published 2014
Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,589 ratings — published 2010
Food in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,612 ratings — published 1973
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,839 ratings — published 2008
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,955 ratings — published 2006
An Edible History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,222 ratings — published 2010
What Einstein Told His Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,281 ratings — published 2002
Consider the Oyster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,978 ratings — published 1941
Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,418 ratings — published 2018
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,041 ratings — published 2019
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,010 ratings — published 2016
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 83,387 ratings — published 1989
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,522 ratings — published 2015
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,569 ratings — published 2004
“gastronomically, a wild salmon and a farmed salmon have as much in common as a side of wild boar has with pork chops.”
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.”
― The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
― The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
