9 best-selling anthologies books like The Best American Food Writing 2021 by Gabrielle Hamilton

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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…

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best American Food Writing 2021 by Gabrielle Hamilton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Michael W. Twitty's The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl

2. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

By: Ruth Reichl

4.18

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
Cover of Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice Waters

3. Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

By: Alice Waters

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the ci… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

4. My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more

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  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

5. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more

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6. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By: Lisa See

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has… read more

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7. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

By: Nigel Slater

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more

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8. The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family

By: Laura Schenone

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmothe… read more

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Cover of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein

9. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

10. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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

11. 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
Cover of National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen

12. 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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  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
Cover of We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Waters

13. 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

Similar categories in Alice Waters's We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol

14. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World by Cheuk Kwan

15. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World

By: Cheuk Kwan

3.57

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more

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  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
Cover of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

16. 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

Similar categories in Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop

17. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

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18. The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's The Best American Essays 2022 book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
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19. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

Cover of Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck

20. Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

By: Jess Damuck

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Offering more than 100 inspired recipes, recipe developer and food stylist Jess Damuck shares her p… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin

21. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Best American Travel Writing 2021 by Padma Lakshmi

22. The Best American Travel Writing 2021

By: Padma Lakshmi

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

“The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
Cover of The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021: A Collection by Alafair Burke

23. The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021: A Collection

By: Alafair Burke

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new… read more

Similar categories in Alafair Burke's The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021: A Collection book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman

24. 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

Similar categories in Mark Bittman's The Best American Food Writing 2023 book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. 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
Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2022 by Sohla El-Waylly

26. 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

Similar categories in Sohla El-Waylly's The Best American Food Writing 2022 book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • anthologies
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
Cover of The Best American Food Writing 2020 by J. Kenji López-Alt

27. 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

Similar categories in J. Kenji López-Alt's The Best American Food Writing 2020 book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • anthologies
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food writing
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28. 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

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29. 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

Similar categories in Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021 book and Gabrielle Hamilton's The Best American Food Writing 2021

  • travel
  • anthologies
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • food writing
Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

30. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

31. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing

26 Top nonfiction books like The Best American Food Writing 2021 by Gabrielle Hamilton

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

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

Alice Waters

4.17

Transform Your Habits

My Life in France

Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

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20 must-read nonfiction books like The Best American Food Writing 2018 by Ruth Reichl

Transform Your Habits

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

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

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

Better Homes and Gardens

5.00

Transform Your Habits

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

Matt Goulding

5.00

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