15 best-selling memoir books like Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin

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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

By: Sasha Martin

3.82

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sash…

"There’s no such thing as half family."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"The easy truth is as much a lie as any."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"A name alone cannot keep a heritage alive."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

If you liked the memoir plot in Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino

1. The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

By: Elaine Sciolino

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris―th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

2. The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

By: Peter Tompkins , Christopher Bird

4.00

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Exploring the world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Vogel makes the prediction, which he stresses is as yet far from established fact, that since living things all have a high water content, the vitality of a person must be in some way related to the …"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Asked to sum up the importance of his research with plants, Vogel replied: "So much of the ills and suffering in life comes from our inability to release stresses and forces within us. When a person …"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Singh then experimented on a vast number of species, such as com­ mon asters, petunias, cosmos, and white spider lilies, along with such economic plants as onions, sesame, radishes, sweet potatoes, a…"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Thomas A. Edison told his associates that "Carver is worth a fortune" and backed up his statement by offering to employ the black chemist at an astronomically high salary. Carver turned down the offe…"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

Cover of A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

3. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

By: Molly Wizenberg

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
"Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fitt…"

-Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

Cover of Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson

4. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas

5. Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

By: Ken Ilgunas

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

In this memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of B… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

6. Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

By: Jessica Fechtor

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jess… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters by Winton Porter

7. Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters

By: Winton Porter

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thrudelivers one suspenseful scene after another. But … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob  Greene

8. Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

By: Bob Greene

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Friendship Bread by Darien Gee

9. Friendship Bread

By: Darien Gee

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

An anonymous gift sends a woman on a journey she never could have anticipated. One afternoon, Julia… read more

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  • food
Cover of The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth

10. The Enormous Egg

By: Oliver Butterworth

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a… read more

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11. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

By: None

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorkereditor Emily Nunn chronicle… read more

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12. My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)

By: Luisa Weiss

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Luisa has a way of telling a story that's nothing short of entrancing." --Deb Perelman, author of T… read more

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13. Hope Was Here

By: Joan Bauer

4.01

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure w… read more

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"Revenge of the Giant Grill Man."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"The sad heart needs work to do."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

14. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

By: Heather Lende

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Hea… read more

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15. Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting

By: Ann Hood

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knit… read more

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16. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

17. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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18. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl

19. 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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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
"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

Cover of If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

20. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality by Emily Morrow

21. Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality

By: Emily Morrow

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by Erin French

22. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

23. 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

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
Cover of Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin

24. Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

By: Sasha Martin

3.82

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sash… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Martin's Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness book and Sasha Martin's Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
"There’s no such thing as half family."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"The easy truth is as much a lie as any."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"A name alone cannot keep a heritage alive."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

"The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had."

-Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

Cover of Good Taste by Caroline  Scott

25. Good Taste

By: Caroline Scott

3.45

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English count… read more

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  • food
  • audiobook
"I'll permit you to comfort me with soothing words and caresses later."

-Caroline Scott, Good Taste

"Stella stood at the queue outside the butcher's shop and tried to pin a name to all the shades of red. Carmine, cadmium, Venetian red, she thought, vermillion, rose madder, magenta."

-Caroline Scott, Good Taste

"Stella leaned her head back and saw the sun flashing between rooftops, pale pearly clouds and then the corner of Peter Jones', the windows full of hats and dresses in the spring colors, all geranium …"

-Caroline Scott, Good Taste

"What brings you to Gloucestershire?" "I was halfway between Banbury cakes and Bath buns," she said. He raised an eyebrow in response, which made her feel like she'd let a double entendre slip out. "I…"

-Caroline Scott, Good Taste

Cover of Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood

26. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

By: Ann Hood

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From her Italian-American childhood, through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with … read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
Cover of The Queen of the Valley by Lorena Hughes

27. The Queen of the Valley

By: Lorena Hughes

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Set amid Colombia’s unparalleled beauty and inspired by the real-life 1925 Cali earthquake, this ri… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris

28. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Cover of The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers by Peter Lovesey

29. The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

By: Peter Lovesey

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! This captiva… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

30. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

By: Sarah McBride

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."

-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

Cover of Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky

31. Light on Bone

By: Kathryn Lasky

3.71

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 193… read more

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  • audiobook

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Elaine Sciolino

3.71

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Yes, Chef

Marcus Samuelsson

3.00

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Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

Ken Ilgunas

4.12

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Anna Quindlen

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4.64

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