8 must-read anthologies books like The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman

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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 …

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more

Similar categories in Luke Barr's Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

2. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays

3. The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

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4. Appetites: A Cookbook

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-… read more

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Cover of The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Perfect for Fall 2024, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal by Andrew Friedman

5. The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Perfect for Fall 2024, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal

By: Andrew Friedman

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that com… read more

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

6. 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

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. 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

Similar categories in Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

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8. The Best American Short Stories 2023

By: Min Jin Lee

3.77

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more

Similar categories in Min Jin Lee's The Best American Short Stories 2023 book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • collections
  • anthologies
Cover of National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen

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

By: Anya von Bremzen

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more

Similar categories in Anya von Bremzen's National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel by Molly Greeley

10. The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel

By: Molly Greeley

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired deb… read more

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"Sometimes I have moments of pure astonishment when I realize that William, it seems, is very sure that he knows all of me. He believes that I am the person he sits across from at dinner every evening…"

-Molly Greeley, The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel

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11. The Best American Essays 2023

By: Vivian Gornick

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
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12. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more

Similar categories in Fuchsia Dunlop's Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

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13. 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

Similar categories in Caroline Scott's Good Taste book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • food
"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 Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson

14. 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

Similar categories in Rebecca May Johnson's Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

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15. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more

Similar categories in David Lehman's The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • anthologies
Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman

16. 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

Similar categories in Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023 book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • gastronomy
  • journalism
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R.F. Kuang

17. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • anthologies
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2022 by Sohla El-Waylly

18. The Best American Food Writing 2022

By: Sohla El-Waylly

3.96

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series ed… read more

Similar categories in Sohla El-Waylly's The Best American Food Writing 2022 book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • gastronomy
Cover of Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More by Yossy Arefi

19. Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More

By: Yossy Arefi

4.28

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

60 accessible, anytime recipes for delectable cookies, cakes, brownies, and bars that need only one… read more

Similar categories in Yossy Arefi's Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2021 by Gabrielle Hamilton

20. The Best American Food Writing 2021

By: Gabrielle Hamilton

3.88

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

The year’s top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwater… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021 book and Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023

  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer

21. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

By: Carl Zimmer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays

14 best-selling nonfiction books like The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman

Transform Your Habits

Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

Luke Barr

2.50

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Laurie Colwin

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Perfect for Fall 2024, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal

Andrew Friedman

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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

Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

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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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