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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- food writing
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
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- 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
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
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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- biography
- memoir
- foodie
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
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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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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- 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
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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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
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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