Food Writing
Love food? Here are some tasty titles just for you! (Updated October 2018)
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My American Dream
The host of "Lidia's Kitchen" shares a memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime in Yugoslavia, and her early start as a restaurant worker.
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Eats of Eden
A Pacific Northwest author explores her personal history through the lens of food in this collection of essays.
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The Best Cook in the World
For Southerners, notes Bragg, every recipe is a story, not simply a list of ingredients, and he cannily shares the stories of the meals of his mother’s Alabama upbringing.
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Upstream
Combining information about nature and animal behavior, cuisine, environmental issues and outdoor adventures, local author Cook examines the life and culture of wild salmon, from Alaskan spawning grounds to restaurant menus
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Edible City
Through photos and narratives, Edible City takes the reader from Seattle's early eating days up through the modern boom, introducing iconic figures and signature foods. (adapted from publisher's copy).
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The Potlikker Papers
A food historian evokes potlikker—the rich, savory juices left after collard greens are boiled—in this excellent history Southern foodways and the people who’ve traveled them.
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In Memory of Bread
Faced at age 36 with the sudden onset of celiac disease, a professor realizes that his days of brewing beer and eating his wife's homemade bread are over.
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Hot Dog Taste Test
Hanawalt, author of My Dirty Dumb Eyes and designer for the animated series Bojack Horseman, turns her cartooning eye toward food and foodie culture.
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My Soul Looks Back
An African-American culinary scholar remembers the years she spent among an "extraordinary circle of friends" that included James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Nina Simone.
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A Really Big Lunch
The late poet and novelist Harrison was also a devotee of fine and not-so-fine dining, and his gusto sparkles throughout this collection of magazine essays on food.
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