Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
By: Fatima Ali
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventur…
Want to Read $ 10.99"There is nothing more empowering than knowing - no, believing - that all you really need is you."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"hen we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living. When that choice is yanked away from us, that's when we scramble to feel."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing she loved most - cooking - and could make it to the tippy-top and do what she loved on TV, then what was to stop all of us little brown girls from carving out new paths, from calling attention to the hungry children, the silenced dreamers, the oddballs and rebels who long to go against the grain?"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
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1. Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Fatima Bhutto
3.93
Format: None pages,
In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding h… read more
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2. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
By: Padma Lakshmi
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces the arc … read more
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3. A Brush with Love: A January Wedding Story (A Year of Weddings 2, #2)
By: Rachel Hauck
4.28
Format: 315 pages,
Ginger Winters is a gifted hairstylist with scars no one can see. The last thing she expects from t… read more
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4. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
7. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
8. 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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- audiobook
9. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
10. The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem
By: Matthew Batt
3.56
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables … read more
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- nonfiction
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11. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
By: Rabia Chaudry
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more
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"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
12. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
13. 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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"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
14. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- audiobook
16. 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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"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
17. 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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18. Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
By: Fatima Ali
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventur… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
- cooking
- nonfiction
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"There is nothing more empowering than knowing - no, believing - that all you really need is you."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"hen we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living. When that choice is yanked away from us, that's when we scramble to feel."-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
"I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing she loved most - cooking - and could make it to the tippy-top and do what she lo…"-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More
19. A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
By: Steve Hoffman
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An American food writer moves his family of unlikely expats to the French countryside, where the lo… read more
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20. 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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21. Feh: A Memoir
By: Shalom Auslander
4.12
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament , a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the bib… read more
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