5 must-read culinary books like Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier

Cover of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier

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…

If you liked the culinary plot in Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford

1. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

By: Bill Buford

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himsel… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
"The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Cover of The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef by Marco Pierre White, James Steen

2. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

By: Marco Pierre White , James Steen

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What do Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay have in common? They survived tours of duty in the kitchen … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
"If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you."

-Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

Cover of Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney

3. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

By: Michael Gibney

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney us… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Tartine Bread

By: Chad Robertson , Eric Wolfinger

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the home or professional bread-maker, this is the book of the season. It comes from a man many … read more

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5. 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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6. Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine

By: None

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Nomais the most important cookbook of the year." - The Wall Street Journal Rene Redzepi has been w… read more

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Cover of Eat a Peach by David Chang

7. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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8. 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
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • 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 World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain

9. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.64

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, televisi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class ch…"

-Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Cover of Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara

10. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

12. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Cover of Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi

13. Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation

By: René Redzepi

4.56

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, New Y… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier

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

Similar categories in Jeff Gordinier's Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World book and Jeff Gordinier's Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
Cover of My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings by Zosia Mamet

15. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings

By: Zosia Mamet

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals… read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson

16. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

By: Rebecca May Johnson

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Cover of Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan

17. Burn the Place: A Memoir

By: Iliana Regan

3.64

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • culinary
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone

18. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

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  • travel
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman

19. 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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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach  Zimmerman

20. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession by Andrew Friedman

21. Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession

By: Andrew Friedman

3.63

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An all-access history of the evolution of the American restaurant chef Chefs, Drugs and Rock & R… read more

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14 must-read audiobook books like Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier

Transform Your Habits

Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

Michael Gibney

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Eat a Peach

David Chang

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Ruth Reichl

4.10

Transform Your Habits

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Anthony Bourdain

3.64

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9 Top food books like Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson

Transform Your Habits

The Gastronomical Me

M.F.K. Fisher , None

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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

Anya von Bremzen

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Butter

Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

Angela Hui

3.90

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