23 Best nonfiction books like The Food of Oaxaca: Recipes and Stories from Mexico's Culinary Capital: A Cookbook by Alejandro Ruiz

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The Food of Oaxaca: Recipes and Stories from Mexico's Culinary Capital: A Cookbook

By: Alejandro Ruiz

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking cookbook celebrating the distinctive cuisine and culture of Oaxaca, from one of Me…

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1. George's Marvellous Medicine

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered… read more

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2. Oaxaca Journal

By: Oliver Sacks

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal...."

-Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

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3. Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables

By: Martha Holmberg , Joshua McFadden

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

"The flavors are big. . . . Trust me: Read this book and you'll never look at cabbage the same way … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi

4. Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi

By: Yotam Ottolenghi

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

Yotam Ottolenghi's Plentychanged the way people cook and eat. Its focus on vegetable dishes, with t… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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5. Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

By: Ken Forkish

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Portland's most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this must-have baking guide, featuring recip… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction

6. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)

By: Donna Leon

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more

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7. Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: Recipes from My Barn in the Mountains

By: Tieghan Gerard

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Hardcover

Tieghan Gerard grew up in the Colorado mountains as one of seven children. When her dad took too lo… read more

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8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

By: Eric Carle , Bill Martin Jr.

4.11

Format: None pages,

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book published in 1967. Written an… read more

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9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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10. 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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11. Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct… read more

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"How come you don't ask me any questions?" "Questions about what?" "About the investigation I'm working on," Kaga replied. "It's usually the first thing people ask me when I make inquiries. 'What's ha…"

-Keigo Higashino, Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

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12. Black Food: Stories, Art, and Essays

By: Bryant Terry

4.45

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods: A Cookbook by Tieghan Gerard

13. Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods: A Cookbook

By: Tieghan Gerard

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - There's something for everyone in these 125 easy, show-stopping recipes… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and wine
Cover of Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

14. 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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  • food
  • nonfiction
"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

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15. Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico

By: Bricia Lopez

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A colorful celebration of Oaxacan cuisine from the landmark Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles  Oaxa… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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16. The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico

By: Mely Martinez

4.34

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, best-selling cookbook from Mely Martínez, The Mexican Home Kitchen, compiles the … read more

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17. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

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"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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18. From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen

By: Snoop Dogg

4.23

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

------------------------------ Welcome to tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen • The first cookbook and recipe … read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s never easy working fire scenes.   Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysteri… read more

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20. Vegan Africa: Plant-Based Recipes from Ethiopia to Senegal

By: Marie Kacouchia

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An authentically African and naturally vegan culinary journey across the continent     Drawing from… read more

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21. Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus

By: Yasmin Khan

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award and the 2022 IACP Award (Internationa… read more

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22. Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home

By: Eric Kim

4.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An homage to what it means to be Korean American with delectable recipes that explore how new culin… read more

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  • cooking
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"Getting a recipe out of my mother is like pulling teeth out of a tiger's mouth."

-Eric Kim, Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home

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23. 5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food

By: Jamie Oliver

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

5 Ingredients Mediterranean is everything people loved about the first book but with the added va-v… read more

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24. Colombiana: A Rediscovery of Recipes and Rituals from the Soul of Colombia

By: Mariana Velásquez

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A recipe developer and food stylist—whose work has taken her across the globe to work with clients … read more

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Cover of Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman

25. Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over

By: Alison Roman

4.16

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The social media star, New York Times columnist, and author of Dining I… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Bavel: Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East [A Cookbook]

By: Ori Menashe

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed chefs behind award-winning Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookboo… read more

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27. Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: Modern Plant-Based Recipes using Native American Ingredients

By: Lois Ellen Frank

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest o… read more

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28. The Food of Oaxaca: Recipes and Stories from Mexico's Culinary Capital: A Cookbook

By: Alejandro Ruiz

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking cookbook celebrating the distinctive cuisine and culture of Oaxaca, from one of Me… read more

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Cover of The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes by Sam Sifton

29. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes

By: Sam Sifton

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

You Don't Need a Recipe. Really, You Don't.Sam Sifton, founding editor of New York Times Cooking, m… read more

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30. Ethiopia: Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa

By: Yohanis Gebreyesus

4.21

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

The national borders contain one of the most fertile swathes of land on the continent. All this mak… read more

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Cover of Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook by Nicholas Tsakiris

31. Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook

By: Nicholas Tsakiris

3.76

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life—its charming culture and sublime food—captured i… read more

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Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables

Martha Holmberg , Joshua McFadden

3.32

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Yotam Ottolenghi

4.50

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Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

Ken Forkish

3.64

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4.34

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4.06

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Claire Saffitz

4.33

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