Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
By: Lisa Donovan
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun "Donovan is such a vivid writer—sm…
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1. 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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- nonfiction
- food
- audiobook
2. 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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- memoir
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
3. Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life
By: Veronica Chambers , Marcus Samuelsson
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this inspirational autobiography, world-famous chef Marcus Samuelsson tells his extraordinary st… read more
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4. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
By: Maya Angelou
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
Throughout Maya Angelou's life, food has played a key role at important moments. In this text she n… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
By: Elizabeth Bard
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the he… read more
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6. Double Cup Love
By: Eddie Huang
2.88
Format: None pages,
In the follow-up to his bestselling coming-of-age memoir Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit show on ABC,… read more
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7. L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
By: David Lebovitz
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his… read more
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8. How to Cook a Wolf
By: M.F.K. Fisher
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
M.F.K. Fisher's guide to living happily even in trying times, which was first published during the … read more
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9. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
12. 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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- feminism
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- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- food writing
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
14. 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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- memoir
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- 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
15. 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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- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- 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
16. Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
By: Lisa Donovan
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun "Donovan is such a vivid writer—sm… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- cooking
- nonfiction
- food
- food and drink
- food writing
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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- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- audiobook
18. 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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- 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
19. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
By: Gretchen Whitmer
4.34
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
By: Michelle T. King
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more
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- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
