In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca…
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1. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
By: Helena Attlee
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
2. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
3. Red Sauce Brown Sauce
By: Felicity Cloake
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
If there's one thing that truly unites this country from Aberdeen to Abernethy, St Ives to St Pancr… read more
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- cookbooks
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- food
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- food and drink
4. 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
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
"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
5. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- food
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
6. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
7. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- memoir
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8. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
9. 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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- memoir
- cookbooks
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- food
- nonfiction
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"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
10. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
11. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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- memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
- food writing
"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
12. Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
By: Ella Risbridger
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking There are lots of ways to start a sto… read more
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- essays
- food and drink
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"There’s also some really solid kneading to be done here, which is the best cure for a troubled heart: hands in the dough, window wide, something jaunty on the radio."-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"And I was scared, and I was stuck. It was ridiculous, laughable: sometimes anxiety is. Often it is. It doesn't make it any less real, or any less difficult to manage."-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"In my life I have had several moments of total clarity. Not revelations, necessarily, but times and places where I have, fleetingly, felt that everything in the world was more real than usual, and th…"-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
"I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly…"-Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
13. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Niellah Arboine
4.02
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the successfu… read more
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- essays
14. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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- anthologies
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- food
- essays
- food and drink
- food writing
15. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
16. The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath
By: Hunter Davies
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath – a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history a… read more
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17. Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
By: Ruby Tandoh
4.12
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
In Eat Up, Ruby Tandoh celebrates the fun and pleasure of food, taking a look at everything from gl… read more
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"No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
"All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the…"-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
18. Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3.95
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to Esmé Weijun Wang finding moments of stillness i… read more
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19. The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things
By: Ella Risbridger
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A DELICIOUS MAGAZINE BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR * A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 10 COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR Short… read more
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20. By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
By: Amy-Jane Beer
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What is a river?, asks Amy-Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature … read more
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21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
