8 must-read essays books like Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh

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Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

By: Ruby Tandoh

4.12

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In Eat Up, Ruby Tandoh celebrates the fun and pleasure of food, taking a look at everything from gl…

"No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

"No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

"All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the company of people you feel comfortable with and safe around, eat your heart out. Practise ordering greedily on dates. Be the only person at the table to get a dessert. When it arrives, don't share it. Try out speaking your mind when you're alone -- talk to yourself in the mirror, saying things like 'I would like you to go down on me, and I want the last slice of the strudel.' No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

"All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the company of people you feel comfortable with and safe around, eat your heart out. Practise ordering greedily on dates. Be the only person at the table to get a dessert. When it arrives, don't share it. Try out speaking your mind when you're alone -- talk to yourself in the mirror, saying things like 'I would like you to go down on me, and I want the last slice of the strudel.' No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

If you liked the essays plot in Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Tyranny

By: Lesley Fairfield

3.44

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In Tyranny, brisk, spare text and illustrations that deal head-on with anorexia propel the reader a… read more

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2. Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

By: Peter Heller

3.81

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to clearing a space where love can happen."

-Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

"Sometimes I catch myself being a person I wouldn't tolerate for five minutes at my own kitchen table. Being a thoughtless, self-centered jerk."

-Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

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3. I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

By: Nora Ephron

3.80

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"My religion is Get Over It."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?"

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

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4. Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage

By: Molly Wizenberg

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

In this funny, frank, tender memoir and New York Times bestseller, the author of A Homemade Life an… read more

Similar categories in Molly Wizenberg's Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

5. Wallflower at the Orgy

By: Nora Ephron

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

From her Academy Award--nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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6. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From TheNew York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

7. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel… read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing

8. Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

By: Nora Ephron

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron's uproarious essays--tackling everything from feminism to th… read more

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9. Heartburn

By: Nora Ephron

3.53

Format: 256 pages,

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the wri… read more

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10. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

By: Michael Ruhlman

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more

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11. The Bobby Gold Stories

By: Anthony Bourdain , Breaulove Swells Whimsy

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's ba… read more

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12. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

Similar categories in Becky Holmes's Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • nonfiction
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13. Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files

By: Deb Perelman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chick… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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14. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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15. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • health
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17. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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18. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • nonfiction
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19. Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival

By: Cash Carraway

4.14

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation. She’s been moved around the syste… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

By: Rebecca May Johnson

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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21. How to Love a Jamaican

By: Alexia Arthurs

3.85

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more

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22. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

By: Molly Smith

4.61

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

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23. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
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24. Orfeia

By: Joanne M. Harris

3.76

Format: 153 pages, ebook

So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, … read more

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"While her mother struggled with grief, Disy was coming to terms with death in a way she could control."

-Joanne M. Harris, Orfeia

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25. Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food

By: Laura Thomas

4.06

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Just Eat It isn't just a book. It's part of a movement to give women power and control over our bod… read more

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  • health
  • feminism
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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26. Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

By: Ruby Tandoh

4.12

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In Eat Up, Ruby Tandoh celebrates the fun and pleasure of food, taking a look at everything from gl… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
"No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too."

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

"All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the…"

-Ruby Tandoh, Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

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27. California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival

By: Keith Corbin

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir about gangs, drugs, c… read more

Similar categories in Keith Corbin's California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival book and Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1

By: Carly Usdin

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles … read more

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29. I'll Eat When I'm Dead

By: Barbara Bourland

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every weekday morning, as the sun rose above Sixth Avenue, a peerless crop of women-frames poised, … read more

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30. Square One

By: Nell Frizzell

3.26

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at… read more

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31. Somebody Feed Phil: The Book—Untold Stories, Behind-the-Scenes Photos and Favorite Recipes

By: Phil Rosenthal

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Wherever I travel, be it a different state, country, or continent, I … read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
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Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

Peter Heller

3.81

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Nora Ephron

3.80

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3.81

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4.13

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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

3.55

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Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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Angela Hui

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