Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to address, is not being seen at all."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
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1. Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
By: Grant Achatz , Nick Kokonas
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue) shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him interna… read more
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2. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
By: Kathleen Flinn
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry In this family histo… read more
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3. Yes, Chef
By: Marcus Samuelsson
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his gran… read more
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4. Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
By: Alice Waters
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the ci… read more
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5. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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6. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
By: Padma Lakshmi
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces the arc … read more
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7. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
By: Gabrielle Hamilton
4.00
Format: 274 pages,
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more
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8. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
9. Eat a Peach
By: David Chang
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant named Momofuku in Manhattan's East Village, not exp… read more
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"NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"Just know that this is as honest and true a story as I can offer."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"In other words, we may not be able to reject our fortune or fate, but we can reject how we approach it."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
"I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
10. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
By: Ruth Reichl
4.10
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a… read more
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"The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country."-Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
11. How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
By: Tony Keith
4.19
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in vers… read more
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12. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
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"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
13. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
By: Edward Lee
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee … read more
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"This is where I disagree with food critics whose mission is to judge only what is on the plate. The story such critics tell is about THEM, THEIR preferences, THEIR expectations, not the chef's. What …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
"I ask the ladies what we lose with each generation. They seem to agree: usually language goes first, then memories of relatives and grandparents, then traditions, then longing for home, then a sense …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
14. Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
By: Jeff Gordinier
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative br… read more
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15. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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16. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
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17. Burn the Place: A Memoir
By: Iliana Regan
3.64
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Best American Food Writing 2023
By: Mark Bittman
3.63
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to … read more
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19. Taking Children: A History of American Terror
By: Laura Briggs
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred ye… read more
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20. Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
By: Fatima Ali
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventur… read more
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"There is nothing more empowering than knowing - no, believing - that all you really need is you."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"hen we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living. When that choice is yanked away from us, that's when we scramble to feel."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing she loved most - cooking - and could make it to the tippy-top and do what she lo…"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
21. Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
By: Karen Walrond
4.08
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? What if together we could forge a radiant re… read more
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