The Best American Food Writing 2020
By: J. Kenji López-Alt
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwateri…
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1. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
By: Wendy MacNaughton , Samin Nosrat
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just … read more
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- culinary
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
2. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
By: Michael Pollan
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education … read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
3. The Collected Stories
By: Lydia Davis
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American v… read more
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- short stories
4. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
By: Bianca Bosker
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilar… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travel… read more
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6. BraveTart – Iconic American Desserts
By: J. Kenji López-Alt , None
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From One-Bowl Devil's Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie that's crisp even on the very bottom… read more
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7. 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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8. A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell, #3)
By: Laurie R. King
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amate… read more
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9. Vampires in the Lemon Grove
By: Karen Russell
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--… read more
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10. The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)
By: Laurie R. King
4.41
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caugh… read more
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11. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- short stories
12. 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
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
13. 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
14. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
15. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)
By: C.S. Harris
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more
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16. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. 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
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- memoir
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
- food writing
18. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
By: Mayukh Sen
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from a… read more
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- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
21. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
By: Edward Lee
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee … read more
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- memoir
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
"This is where I disagree with food critics whose mission is to judge only what is on the plate. The story such critics tell is about THEM, THEIR preferences, THEIR expectations, not the chef's. What …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
"I ask the ladies what we lose with each generation. They seem to agree: usually language goes first, then memories of relatives and grandparents, then traditions, then longing for home, then a sense …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
22. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more
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- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
23. The Young of Other Animals
By: Chris Cander
3.55
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
Shocking family secrets have the power to destroy—or unite—an estranged mother and daughter in an e… read more
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24. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
By: Moiya McTier
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this approachable and fascinating biography of the galaxy, an astrophysicist and folklorist deta… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. 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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- anthologies
- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
26. The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series)
By: Samin Nosrat
4.21
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink. “Goo… read more
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- anthologies
- cookbooks
- cooking
- short stories
- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- food writing
27. 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
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- nonfiction
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- food writing
28. The Best American Food Writing 2020
By: J. Kenji López-Alt
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwateri… read more
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- cooking
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- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- food writing
29. The Best American Food Writing 2018
By: Ruth Reichl
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, th… read more
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- anthologies
- cookbooks
- cooking
- short stories
- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- food writing
"Even the most avid technocrat must occasionally escape from virtual space, and what better place to do it than the kitchen, with all its dangerous knives and delicious aromas?"-Ruth Reichl, The Best American Food Writing 2018
30. 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
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- anthologies
- culinary
- cookbooks
- cooking
- short stories
- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- food writing
31. The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
By: Misty Copeland
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
