19 must-read nonfiction books like Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops by Meredith Erickson

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Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops

By: Meredith Erickson

4.32

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, includi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops by Meredith Erickson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By: William Finnegan

4.27

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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2. 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

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink

3. Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking

By: Darra Goldstein , Stefan Wettainen

3.76

Format: 6 pages, ebook

Bringing the best of Scandinavian home-cooking into your kitchen, Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cook… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
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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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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5. Plenty

By: Yotam Ottolenghi

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With his fabulous restaurants and bestselling Ottolenghi Cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi has established… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink

6. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

By: Ruth Reichl

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or t… read more

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7. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

By: Lena Andrews

4.00

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Jacqueline in Paris

By: Ann Mah

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier… read more

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9. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

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10. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

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  • food
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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11. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • food
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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12. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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13. The Lager Queen of Minnesota

By: J. Ryan Stradal

4.01

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more

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  • food
"Young man"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

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14. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

By: B. Dylan Hollis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
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15. Angels of the Resistance

By: Noelle Salazar

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

“ Angels of the Resistance brings to life a deadly-effective and deeply moving sisterhood.” —Kate Q… read more

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16. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Emma of 83rd Street (For the Love of Austen, #1)

By: Audrey Bellezza

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen’s Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan’s m… read more

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18. Ottolenghi Simple

By: Yotam Ottolenghi

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A collection of 130 easy, flavor-forward recipes from beloved chef Yotam Ottolenghi. In Ottoleng… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
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19. Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.05

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from t… read more

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"they were 'the Muses' bringing brilliance down from upon high"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"they were "the Muses," brining brilliance down from upon high"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"Not all revolutions mean burning down a damned city. I am no historian, but ... it seems likely those are far from the norm..."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

"If things go poorly, tell her to wait for us. If things go really, quite very poorly, get on a ship and go and do not look back."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)

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20. Beasts of a Little Land

By: Juhea Kim

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more

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"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."

-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."

-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."

-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."

-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

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21. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3) by Ali Smith

22. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

By: Ali Smith

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more

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"We move from one invisibility to another."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

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23. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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24. 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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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"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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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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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Provence: Recipes from the French Mediterranean by Caroline Craig

26. Provence: Recipes from the French Mediterranean

By: Caroline Craig

3.92

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner for the UK in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020 in the Mediterranean category.Provence… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Via Carota: A Celebration of Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant: An Italian Cookbook by Jody Williams

27. Via Carota: A Celebration of Seasonal Cooking from the Beloved Greenwich Village Restaurant: An Italian Cookbook

By: Jody Williams

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The much-anticipated cookbook from “New York’s Most Perfect R… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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28. Misunderstood Vegetables: How to Fall in Love with Sunchokes, Rutabaga, Eggplant and More

By: Becky Selengut

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Go from “what the heck is this” to “how does it taste so good” in this celebration of misfit vegeta… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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29. Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops

By: Meredith Erickson

4.32

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, includi… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Erickson's Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops book and Meredith Erickson's Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops

  • italy
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Justice of the Pies: Sweet and Savory Pies, Quiches, and Tarts plus Inspirational Stories from Exceptional People: A Baking Book by Maya-Camille Broussard

30. Justice of the Pies: Sweet and Savory Pies, Quiches, and Tarts plus Inspirational Stories from Exceptional People: A Baking Book

By: Maya-Camille Broussard

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Pies (and tarts, quiches, and more) with a purpose from celebrated Chicago baker and star of Netfli… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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31. 6 Spices, 60 Dishes: Indian Recipes That Are Simple, Fresh, and Big on Taste

By: Ruta Kahate

3.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A collection of 60 Indian recipes that are fresh and healthy, easy to prepare, and full of flavor. … read more

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14 best-selling cookbooks books like Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops by Meredith Erickson

Transform Your Habits

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

Wendy MacNaughton , Samin Nosrat

4.39

Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking

Darra Goldstein , Stefan Wettainen

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Plenty

Yotam Ottolenghi

3.76

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Deborah Levy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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3.82

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