Friends! What are good books involving food? Can be both fiction and non fiction
Friends! What are good books involving food? Can be both fiction and non fiction
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Friends! What are good books involving food? Can be both fiction and non fiction
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Ruth Reichl’s food critic memoir, Garlic and Sapphires.
I really enjoyed the 100 Foot Journey – I guess it’s also a movie now but I’ve never seen the movie.
@Madie omg it’s a book?! The movie is amazing. Highly recommend checking it out.
Jo-Ann Zodkowic yes! The book is so good! And a fairly quick read as well.
@Madie I’m striking out today. Usually I am so on top of the book first than movie genre. But this is my 2nd surprise of the day!
Can it involve the lack of food? because Cormac McCarthy’s The Road will definitely make you appreciate food.
@Nína or nauseate you to the point food is no longer an issue.
Oh my,i had bad dreams after reading this.
I guess that’s one what to look at it. I personally loved that book. Harrowing read but so good:)
@Cetadel yeah it’s quite scary but so well written:)
@Nína I appreciate McCarthy and have researched him a lot. Visuals in the Road were just over the line for me and I mean the personal line of I’ve just watched too many.
@Beverly oh sorry i thought u were just joking on your earlier comment. Yeah I get that. It is a very harrowing read and not for everyone. I have to say though that I find Blood Meridian harder to read than The road.
@Nína you weren’t totally wrong about joking. Im able to tune things out. I haven’t tackled anything else by him except Pretty Horses. I’ve read about them but not tackled the books. Taken a huge turn to nonfiction in last few years.
Read what you like 🙂 I read a lot of non-fiction, too.
Are you referring to cozy mysteries??
Any memoir by Ruth Reichl
If you’re looking for something breezy and light, I enjoyed Sourdough by Robin Sloane.
Sourdough!
Omnivore’s Dilemma
If you’re looking for nonfiction like Blue Corn and Chocolate or anything by Gary Paul Nabhan.
Non-fiction I loved Anthony Bourdains Kitchen Confidential if your looking for more food industry. But also, just how he describes food is amazing
I really enjoyed Cooked, by Michael Pollan, for a non-fiction.
Eat Pray Love. It doesn’t solely deal with food, but it is still a good memoir.
Also, I just bought and haven’t read yet, but Padma Lakshmis “love, loss, and what we ate” supposedly has a ton of reference to food and is 1.99 on kindle right now!
Fast Food Nation if you don’t want to eat fast food ever again.
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan. It is hilarious and covers just about any food you could think of! His thoughts on Whataburger were almost a deal breaker for this Texan, but I forgave him in the end ??
@Tasha gonna have to check out the Whataburger references.
He calls it “the Texas Carl’s Jr.” hahaha. He also calls oysters “snot rocks,” but I agree with him on that one.
@Tasha yeah I can go with the snot rocks but the Carl Jr. No way. I remember seeing them on turnpike in Kansas as a kid on summer vacation so I gave them a try when they came to Texas. I really did. But t mobile was giving them away as part of Tuesday freebie. Not even for free and that was family consensus.
@Tasha i like Gaffigan a lot but … waving at Whataburger as the bus goes by it … thats just ….
The sharper your knife the less you cry!
Hundred Foot Journey
@Cathie I didn’t know this was a book!! Must read
@Gaby it is so good. I loved both the book and the movie.
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (the movie is adorable, too!)
@Jennifer think she has another food related title with oranges
@Beverly Five Quarters of the Orange
Salt! It’s so interesting how something so simple is in everything but also how much it changed the world.
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal, and Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.
Sourdough. Like Water for Chocolate
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender.
The Hannah Swensen murder series by Joanne Fluke
Real Food Fake Food, Extra Virgin, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal.
Julie and Julia
@Cathie I really liked the movie, is the book similar or better?
@Cathie @Olivia Pretty similar. I enjoyed both.
@Olivia I liked the book better. But that’s because I read it first so that usually happens. ??♀️
@Cathie Same
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is pretty dang awesome. It has recipes throughout, too.
I really enjoyed that one ?
@Rebecca Came here to say this!
Two of my favorite books are Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence. They aren’t necessarily solely about food but, being based in France and Italy, food is a huge part of life. Really quick reads as well!
@Molly definitely agree with under the Tuscan sun! I think I was constantly hungry from how they talk about food with that book
There’s a book called Sourdough by Robin Sloan about a woman who has never cooked before but learns how to bake sourdough bread using a special starter gifted to her. Warning it makes you crave sourdough bread, a lot
My Life In Paris. Its Julia Childs story on how she loved to and luved in France and where her love of cooking and french food came from. Shes a HUGE inspiration to me. Its an awesome read of your a foodie
Heartburn by Nora Ephron is so good.
Liquor series by Poppy Z Brite. Delicious! By Ruth Reichel. Deep dish by Mary Kay Andrews.
I really like Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan.
My high-school friend has written several cozy mysteries around food: https://smile.amazon.com/Leslie-Karst/e/B017OH72AC/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant is a great series of essays
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen is a cute read. I used it for A book with “pop”, “sugar” or “challenge” in the title
Any of M. K. Fisher’s books. I think. Non fiction.
Mark Kurlansky is a good author for nonfiction
Relish by Lucy Knisley!
@Leah I prefer chow chow. Joking. Was looking up a book on Banana history I enjoyed years ago and ran across Reay Tannahill and several titles looked interesting. I’ll be busy all night and I already brought 5 home from library sale yesterday
Oh yes. Thanks for reminder. I knew name sounded familiar. Salt then Cod and he’s been busy since I last read his work
Banana: the Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel and Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman and several more
chocolat?
John T Edge has a series of short books on classic American dishes that is fun to read. He travels around and tastes regional variations then includes recipes. I want to say the foods are donuts, fried chicken, hamburgers, and apple pie.
Chocolat or Eat Pray Love
Omnivore’s Dilemma and Kitchen Confidential for nonfiction, The Peculiar Sadness of Lemon Cake for fiction
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe by Mary Simses
Blue Jelly by Deborah Bull
Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning: Debby Bull: 9780786862559: http://amazon.com/ Books
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Jelly-Love-Lessons-Canning/dp/0786862556
Under The Tuscan Sun and Chocolat
the summer of jordi perez has a really cute food-related subplot
Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Anything by Ruth Reichl, her books are amazing! It’s like you are eating with her!
Bee Wilson is an amazing food writer
Chocolat
This is the story of a Russian scientist who after the breakup of Soviet Union threatened the work he was doing dispersed seeds for the pomegranates he had collected and dustributed them around the world including i believe to Texas A&M. He was able to move to Israel and I’m off to research what he’s up to now.
Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist’s Exile from Eden: Gregory M. Levin: 9780964949768: http://amvazon.com/ Books
https://www.amazon.com/Pomegranate-Roads-Soviet-Botanists-Exile/dp/0964949768
Heartburn by Nora Ephron was awesome! So funny and lovely. Meryl Streep narrates it on Audible and she does an amazing job!
Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur la Curé – basically anything by Joanne Harris!
Last year I read “Sourdough” by Robin Sloan, which is fiction, but you learn A TON about the process of making sourdough within the plot of a twenty-something coming into her own and forging ahead. It was such an interesting book.
@Anita Sourdough is the book our book club is reading this month. I’m looking forward to it.
Eat, Pray Love ? ? ? love that one
Nigel Slater’s ‘Toast’.
Garlic and Sapphire by Ruth Reichl
Heartburn by Nora Ephron is very good and it involves food and heartbreak. Highly recommend!
Chill con corpses and that series are awesome!
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto ?
Great chef romance book
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong!
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen by Hannah Howard. It’s an autobiography/memoir of her life in the food & restaurant industry
All the Michael Pollan! In Defense of Food is my favorite. The Omivore’s Dilemma is great too but he talks about corn for a loooooong time. Also I just scooped up Salt Fat Acid Heat which is part instruction part recipes. Also it’s pretty!
@Sarah well you could get The Story of Corn by Betty Fussell. Thete were several on corn I was gonna post as a joke but I forgot Betty. She’s a good food historian
The Story of Corn: Betty Fussell: 9780826335920: http://amazon.com/ Books
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Corn-Betty-Fussell/dp/0826335926/ref=asc_df_0826335926/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312710253827&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7383057196298275218&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027973&hvtargid=pla-571703004377&psc=1&adgrpid=61681020945
My favorite as a kid was “Everything on a Waffle!”
Edible Book Festivals Are for Pun and Food Lovers – Gastro Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edible-book-festival?utm_source=Gastro+Obscura+Weekly+E-mail&utm_campaign=7209e75ea7-GASTRO_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2418498528-7209e75ea7-67075325&ct=t%28GASTRO_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_23_2019%29&mc_cid=7209e75ea7&mc_eid=f11ac5d5f5
Cooked by Michael Pollan