19 Best cooking books like South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock

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South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

By: Sean Brock

4.32

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller and James Beard Award Finalist Named One of the Ten Best Cookbooks of 20…

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Cover of Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford

1. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

By: Bill Buford

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himsel… read more

Similar categories in Bill Buford's Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."

-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Cover of Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums by Travis Barker, Gavin Edwards

2. Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

By: Travis Barker , Gavin Edwards

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’… read more

Similar categories in Travis Barker's Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • nonfiction
"Fuck being bored. You shouldn't ever be bored. You can always read and be smarter. You can always work out and be in better shape. You can always play your instrument and get better at it. Your space…"

-Travis Barker, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

Cover of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Wendy MacNaughton, Samin Nosrat

3. 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

Similar categories in Wendy MacNaughton's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Momofuku by David Chang, Peter Meehan

4. Momofuku

By: David Chang , Peter Meehan

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. A once-unrecognizable word, it's now synony… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of The French Laundry Cookbook by Deborah Jones, Thomas Keller

5. The French Laundry Cookbook

By: Deborah Jones , Thomas Keller

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the acclaimed French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley-… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt

6. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

By: J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-r… read more

Similar categories in J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference

7. In the Waning Light

By: Loreth Anne White

3.92

Format: None pages,

Two decades after her sister's brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness...o… read more

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8. The Drowned Girls (Angie Pallorino, #1)

By: Loreth Anne White

3.31

Format: 180 pages,

He surfaced two years ago. Then he disappeared ... But Detective Angie Pallorino never forgot the … read more

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9. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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10. Appetites: A Cookbook

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-… read more

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11. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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12. 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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13. Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen

By: Edward Lee

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Chef Edward Lee's story and his food could only happen in America. Raised in Brooklyn by a family o… read more

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14. The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

By: Sandor Ellix Katz

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York … read more

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15. All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more

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16. Momofuku Milk Bar

By: David Chang , Christina Tosi

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated complement to the New York Timesbestselling Momofukucookbook, Momofuku Milk … read more

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17. 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

Cover of Matty Matheson: A Cookbook by Matty Matheson

18. Matty Matheson: A Cookbook

By: Matty Matheson

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller! Here is a recipe- and story-packed cookbook from Matty Matheson, star of… read more

Similar categories in Matty Matheson's Matty Matheson: A Cookbook book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

By: Danny Trejo

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey fr… read more

Similar categories in Danny Trejo's Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • nonfiction
"...even in prison I could be free."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Cover of The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt

20. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

By: J. Kenji López-Alt

4.67

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

J. Kenji López-Alt’s debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than h… read more

Similar categories in J. Kenji López-Alt's The Wok: Recipes and Techniques book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • food and drink
Cover of Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward       Lee

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

Similar categories in Edward Lee's Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi

22. Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation

By: René Redzepi

4.56

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, New Y… read more

Similar categories in René Redzepi's Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions by Gabriela Camara

23. My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions

By: Gabriela Camara

4.20

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The innovative chef and culinary trend-setter named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in th… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Camara's My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories by Nigella Lawson

24. Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories

By: Nigella Lawson

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, lea… read more

Similar categories in Nigella Lawson's Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • food and drink
Cover of Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life by Drew Barrymore

25. Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life

By: Drew Barrymore

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Drew Barrymore has always done things in her own unique way--including how she cooks, lives, and fi… read more

Similar categories in Drew Barrymore's Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou by Melissa M. Martin

26. Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou

By: Melissa M. Martin

4.49

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in U.S. FoodwaysWinner, IACP Book of the YearWinner, IACP B… read more

Similar categories in Melissa M. Martin's Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman

27. 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

Similar categories in Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • food and drink
Cover of Matty Matheson: Home Style Cookery: A Home Cookbook by Matty Matheson

28. Matty Matheson: Home Style Cookery: A Home Cookbook

By: Matty Matheson

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Home Style Cookery is the New York Times bestselling recipe-packed cookbook from Matty Matheson—sta… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook] by Mason Hereford

29. Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook]

By: Mason Hereford

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • IACP AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fun, flavorful cook… read more

Similar categories in Mason Hereford's Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook] book and Sean Brock's South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • southern
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • reference
Cover of South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock

30. South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

By: Sean Brock

4.32

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller and James Beard Award Finalist Named One of the Ten Best Cookbooks of 20… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • southern
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • reference
  • food and drink
Cover of Gabriel Kreuther: The Spirit of Alsace, a Cookbook by Gabriel Kreuther

31. Gabriel Kreuther: The Spirit of Alsace, a Cookbook

By: Gabriel Kreuther

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning chef Gabriel Kreuther and New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman, the… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food

20 Top nonfiction books like South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock

Transform Your Habits

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Bill Buford

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

Travis Barker , Gavin Edwards

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Wendy MacNaughton , Samin Nosrat

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Momofuku

David Chang , Peter Meehan

3.95

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9 Best adult books like Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman

Transform Your Habits

Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files

Deb Perelman

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals: A Cookbook

Melissa Clark

4.06

Transform Your Habits

What's for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People: A Baking Book

Claire Saffitz

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten

4.26

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