17 must-read nonfiction books like Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant by Mashama Bailey

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Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

By: Mashama Bailey

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant by Mashama Bailey , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs

By: Karen Page , Andrew Dornenburg

4.05

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship Great cooking g… read more

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  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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2. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

By: Michael W. Twitty

3.86

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I picked cotton so you could pick up a book."

-Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

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3. The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

By: Josh Hanagarne

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.… read more

Similar categories in Josh Hanagarne's The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough"

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"There is a great case to be made for using religion to win arguments, as long as you only debate with other believers."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

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4. Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color

By: None

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

These pages practically glow with Kevin Macpherson's rich and powerful paintings He shares his tech… read more

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  • nonfiction

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. Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture

By: Dana Goodyear

3.50

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy … read more

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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

Similar categories in David Chang's Eat a Peach book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • 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. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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
  • audiobook
"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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10. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live by Dan Ahdoot

11. Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

By: Dan Ahdoot

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an… read more

Similar categories in Dan Ahdoot's Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
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12. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex (Andrea Vernon, #2)

By: Alexander C. Kane

4.24

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

More than a year after she helped save the world from the Sparnaxian invasion, Andrea Vernon is in … read more

Similar categories in Alexander C. Kane's Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex (Andrea Vernon, #2) book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • audiobook
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14. Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

By: Mashama Bailey

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entr… read more

Similar categories in Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant book and Mashama Bailey's Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant

  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

By: Wright Thompson

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The instant  New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence by Christina Tosi

16. Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence

By: Christina Tosi

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The James Beard Award–winning founder of Milk Bar and host of Bake Squad shares her personal storie… read more

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  • memoir
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"This small act of thoughtfulness hit the heartstrings that quietly ask, Who’s taking care of you? Who’s thinking of you?"

-Christina Tosi, Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence

"Every one of these packages is a signpost on the joy trail that connects my mother to me, me to my past, my family of origin to the family I create, and her legacy of giving to mine."

-Christina Tosi, Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence

"But that, right there, is why embracing our dirty dessert secrets matters so much. On the surface, they are just hilarious indulgences, but dig down a little deeper than the whipped cream and cherry …"

-Christina Tosi, Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence

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17. This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

By: Jon Mooallem

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropoli… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a …"

-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

"Genie understood that everyone would be trapped together inside this crippled city for the foreseeable future--in the snow, in the dark, with no electricity, in below-freezing temperatures. Under tho…"

-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

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18. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

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  • audiobook
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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19. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter

20. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"

By: Emma Specter

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

21. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 best-selling biography books like Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant by Mashama Bailey

Transform Your Habits

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Michael W. Twitty

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

Josh Hanagarne

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Eat a Peach

David Chang

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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

Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

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11 must-read audiobook books like Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence by Christina Tosi

Transform Your Habits

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Eat a Peach

David Chang

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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

Will Guidara

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

Michael W. Twitty

4.10

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