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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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Food Writing"

Taste: My Life through Food
Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love
Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
Eat a Peach
The Recipe Box
Dirt: Adventures, with Family, in the Kitchens of Lyon, Looking for the Origins of French Cooking
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights: A Journey Deeper into Dining Hell
Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
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Food Writing Books

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
The Man Who Ate Everything
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Lists

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Art of Eating by M.F.K. FisherFood Matters by Mark BittmanAn Everlasting Meal by Tamar AdlerThe Cinnamon Recipe Book by Valeria Ray
Sweet Food Writing
269 books — 25 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelBlackberry Pie Murder by Joanne FlukeUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances MayesSlim And Healthy You by Sahara SandersThe Recipe Club by Andrea Israel
Books that Cook (stories with recipes)
482 books — 70 voters

Masala Lab by Krish AshokTomato Rhapsody by Adam SchellNature Wants Us to Be Fat by Richard J. JohnsonEat Joy by Natalie Eve GarrettHunt, Gather, Cook by Hank Shaw
Food Books for Readers to Devour (nonfiction)
85 books — 11 voters
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia DunlopEvery Grain of Rice by Fuchsia DunlopServe the People by Jen Lin-LiuThe Breath of a Wok by Grace YoungThe Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
CHINA Food Writing & CHINESE Cookbooks
47 books — 20 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Food Writing”

“ Once upon a time, everything baked in an oven that was not bread was 'pie'. ...more ”
― Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History
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Anthony Bourdain
“ Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh. ...more ”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Videos Tagged “Food Writing”

Cooking the Books Episode 6: Julie Powell
Cooking the Books Episode 6: Julie Powell
Kingdom of Cooks
Kingdom of Cooks
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Groups Tagged "Food Writing"

Reflections Book Club A group for all genres.
1 member, last active 9 years ago

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