9 Best cooking books like Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor by Arielle Johnson

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

By: Arielle Johnson

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

An irreverent, accessible, essential guide to the science of flavor and how to use it in your own k…

If you liked the cooking plot in Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor by Arielle Johnson , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt

1. 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

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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4. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

By: Ina Garten , None

4.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking… read more

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5. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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6. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cover of Antoni: Let's Do Dinner by Antoni Porowski

7. Antoni: Let's Do Dinner

By: Antoni Porowski

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Antoni Porowski shares 80 of his favorite weeknight recipes to help fans make it from Monday to Fri… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner

8. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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9. Chicano Frankenstein

By: Daniel A. Olivas

3.61

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging an… read more

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10. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook by Sohla El-Waylly

11. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook

By: Sohla El-Waylly

4.48

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe devel… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland

12. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

13. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen: A Cookbook by Molly Baz

14. More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen: A Cookbook

By: Molly Baz

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn to cook with confidence and unbridled joy in 100 big, bold, flavo… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

15. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well by Mark Schatzker

16. The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

By: Mark Schatzker

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunct… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People by Dan Pashman

17. Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People

By: Dan Pashman

3.81

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

The innovative James Beard Award–winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor by Arielle  Johnson

18. Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

By: Arielle Johnson

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

An irreverent, accessible, essential guide to the science of flavor and how to use it in your own k… read more

Similar categories in Arielle Johnson's Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor book and Arielle Johnson's Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year by Christopher Kimball

19. Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year

By: Christopher Kimball

3.97

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

365  essential recipes and tons of foundational resources to make you a more confident cook—from th… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

20. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Keep It Zesty: A Celebration of Lebanese Flavors & Culture from Edy's Grocer by Edy Massih

21. Keep It Zesty: A Celebration of Lebanese Flavors & Culture from Edy's Grocer

By: Edy Massih

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved chef and owner of Edy’s Grocer, a deeply personal celebration of Lebanese flavors … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

17 must-read nonfiction books like Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor by Arielle Johnson

Transform Your Habits

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Antoni: Let's Do Dinner

Antoni Porowski

4.17

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29 Best nonfiction books like Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People by Dan Pashman

Transform Your Habits

Antoni: Let's Do Dinner

Antoni Porowski

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Pioneer Woman Cooks―Dinner's Ready!: 112 Fast and Fabulous Recipes for Slightly Impatient Home Cooks (The Pioneer Woman Cooks, 8)

Ree Drummond

4.19

Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook

Alison Roman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

Crystal Wilkinson

4.43

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