10 best-selling essays books like The Best American Food Writing 2018 by Ruth Reichl

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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…

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the essays plot in The Best American Food Writing 2018 by Ruth Reichl , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

By: Richard Russo

4.11

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more

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"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

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2. Salt: A World History

By: Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Format: None pages,

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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3. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

By: M.F.K. Fisher , Alice B. Toklas

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Toklas's rich mixture of menus and memories of meals shared with such famous friends as Wilder, Pic… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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4. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

By: Better Homes and Gardens

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Features: Over 900 new recipes -- 1,200 in all-reflect current eating habits and lifestyles; 500 ne… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
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5. Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

By: Matt Goulding

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Wi… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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6. September

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The in… read more

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7. 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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8. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

By: Samantha Irby

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more

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9. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

By: Michael Pollan

3.73

Format: 192 pages,

In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more

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10. A Natural History of the Senses

By: Diane Ackerman

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Trade Paperback

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations wi… read more

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11. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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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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  • food and drink
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"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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13. 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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14. 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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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing

16. Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook

By: Alison Roman

4.22

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them—from th… read more

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  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • 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

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18. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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19. Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr, #18)

By: C.S. Harris

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united agai… read more

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20. When Blood Lies (Sebastian St. Cyr, #17)

By: C.S. Harris

4.31

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his family’s tragic history. But the… read more

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21. The Backstreets

By: Perhat Tursun

3.46

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappea… read more

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"The unceasing sound of the cars was precisely the silence of the city."

-Perhat Tursun, The Backstreets

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22. 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
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23. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings

By: Zosia Mamet

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals… read more

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  • foodie
  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food and drink
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24. 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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  • cookbooks
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food and drink
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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
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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
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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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  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food and drink
  • food writing
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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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  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food writing
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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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  • foodie
  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food and drink
  • 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

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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
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food writing
Cover of The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2022 by Jess Walter

31. The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2022

By: Jess Walter

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times be… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies

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Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

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3.50

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5.00

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Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

Matt Goulding

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Anne Rivers Siddons

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Circle of Friends

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Liz Fenwick

3.77

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