7 Best biography memoir books like The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

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The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i…

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1. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • france
  • audiobook
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2. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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3. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Reichl's The Paris Novel book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • travel
  • food
  • france
  • audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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4. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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7. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
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8. The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more

Similar categories in Jo Piazza's The Sicilian Inheritance book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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9. Wives Like Us

By: Plum Sykes

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more

Similar categories in Plum Sykes's Wives Like Us book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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10. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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11. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's The Memory of Lavender and Sage book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • food
  • france
  • audiobook
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13. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

By: Lyn Slater

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more

Similar categories in Lyn Slater's How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

Similar categories in Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories

By: Colombe Schneck

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more

Similar categories in Colombe Schneck's Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • france
  • audiobook
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16. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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17. A Northern Light in Provence

By: Elizabeth Birkelund

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Birkelund's A Northern Light in Provence book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • travel
  • france
  • audiobook
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18. Cooking in Real Life: Delicious & Doable Recipes for Every Day (A Cookbook)

By: Lidey Heuck

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Lidey subscribes to the same theory of home cooking that I do. We all want recipes that have ingre… read more

Similar categories in Lidey Heuck's Cooking in Real Life: Delicious & Doable Recipes for Every Day (A Cookbook) book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

By: Simon Kuper

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more

Similar categories in Simon Kuper's Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

By: Ann Powers

3.51

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Powers's Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

Similar categories in Amy Attas's Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian book and Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.26

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3.84

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4.15

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4.15

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4.06

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3.98

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Erin French

4.11

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