Food Writing
ANTHONY BOURDAIN AND PHILOSOPHY
Anthony Bourdain is famous for being brave enough to eat things most Americans would not regard as food, including a whole cobra, raw seal's eyeballs, and unwashed warthog rectum. His book Kitchen Confidential (2000) was his first best-seller, but not his last.
KITCHEN BLISS: MUSINGS ON FOOD AND HAPPINESS (WITH RECIPES)
Written by Calder, Laura
James Beard Foundation Award- and Taste Canada Award-winning author Laura Calder is back with Kitchen Bliss, a warm, funny, and pragmatic collection of stories and recipes that reveal how cooking, feeding, and home-keeping can magically restore balance and calm in our out-of-sync lives. During the years of the global pandemic, Laura Calder, like many home cooks, found herself bei
FIELDWORK: A FORAGER'S MEMOIR
Written by Regan, Iliana
From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
HOW TO TASTE: A GUIDE TO DISCOVERING FLAVOR AND SAVORING LIFE
Written by Naglich, Mandy
You love to eat. But do you know how to taste?
UNDERCOOKED: HOW I LET FOOD BECOME MY LIFE NAVIGATOR AND HOW MAYBE THAT'S A DUMB WAY TO LIVE
Written by Ahdoot, Dan
A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule--and sometimes ruin--his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network's Raid the Fridge "When most people say they have an unhealthy relationship with food, they mean they eat too much of it or too little.
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: FOOD, POLITICS, AND A HISTORY OF BREAKING BREAD AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Written by Prud'homme, Alex
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food burgers and Biden's ice cream--what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of the nation--from the coauthor of Julia Child's best-selling memoir My Life in France "[A] beautifully writ
EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES
Written by Stark, Lizzie
The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens.
KITCHEN WHISPERERS: COOKING WITH THE WISDOM OF OUR FRIENDS
Written by Kalins, Dorothy
A beautifully written tribute to the people who teach us to cook and guide our hands in the kitchen, by a founding editor of Saveur.
YOUR TABLE IS READY: TALES OF A NEW YORK CITY MAÎTRE D'
Written by Cecchi-Azzolina, Michael
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d'hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants.