6 must-read essays books like Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

By: Mayukh Sen

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from a…

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1. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)

By: Marion Nestle

3.94

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food doll… read more

Similar categories in Marion Nestle's Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) book and Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

  • cooking
  • food
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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3. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

By: Tom Vitale

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and … read more

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  • biography
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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5. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By: Anya von Bremzen

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

By: Alice Waters

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."

-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"

-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

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7. Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

By: Mayukh Sen

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from a… read more

Similar categories in Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America book and Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

By: Judith Tschann

3.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained—and made us hun… read more

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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

By: Danielle Dreilinger

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken mu… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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11. My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions

By: Gabriela Camara

4.20

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The innovative chef and culinary trend-setter named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in th… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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12. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

By: Sophie Minchilli

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s time to embrace the Italian way of life… The Sweetness of Doing Nothing explores the sout… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

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15. Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America

By: Psyche A. Williams-Forson

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Bla… read more

Similar categories in Psyche A. Williams-Forson's Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America book and Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. The Best American Food Writing 2022

By: Sohla El-Waylly

3.96

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series ed… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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17. The Best American Food Writing 2020

By: J. Kenji López-Alt

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwateri… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. The Best American Food Writing 2018

By: Ruth Reichl

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, th… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Even the most avid technocrat must occasionally escape from virtual space, and what better place to do it than the kitchen, with all its dangerous knives and delicious aromas?"

-Ruth Reichl, The Best American Food Writing 2018

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19. Call Me Iggy

By: Jorge Aguirre

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping i… read more

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20. The Memory of Her (The Gentleman Spy Mysteries, #3)

By: Bianca M. Schwarz

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Perfect for lovers of Regency romantic mysteries, this third-in-series follows a woman who has over… read more

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21. With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

By: Laura L. Lovett

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work mad… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

Transform Your Habits

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

Tom Vitale

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

Transform Your Habits

We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

Alice Waters

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Mayukh Sen

3.65

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20 must-read nonfiction books like The Best American Food Writing 2018 by Ruth Reichl

Transform Your Habits

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

M.F.K. Fisher , Alice B. Toklas

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

Better Homes and Gardens

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

Matt Goulding

5.00

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