6 best-selling cooking books like Knife: The Culture, Craft and Cult of Cook's Knife by Tim Hayward

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Knife: The Culture, Craft and Cult of Cook's Knife

By: Tim Hayward

4.28

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

'Hayward, one of the... best food writers alive, every page a different blade, glintingly pictured …

If you liked the cooking plot in Knife: The Culture, Craft and Cult of Cook's Knife by Tim Hayward , here is a list of 6 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

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  • history
  • 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

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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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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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3. Galápagos

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more

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4. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more

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5. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more

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6. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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10. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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11. 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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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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12. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.94

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. The Book of Accidents

By: Chuck Wendig

3.73

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more

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14. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By: Clare Hunter

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"

-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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15. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Kaikeyi

By: Vaishnavi Patel

4.19

Format: 478 pages, Hardcover

“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more

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"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."

-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

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17. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Great Reclamation

By: Rachel Heng

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more

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"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

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19. Jackal

By: Erin E. Adams

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more

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"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."

-Erin E. Adams, Jackal

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20. The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: John Berger

4.05

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A drea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

By: Luke Jennings

3.54

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopa… read more

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"Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired."

-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

"With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an aca…"

-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

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22. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

By: Valerie Fridland

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"Smart and funny--I loved it!" --Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. Knife: The Culture, Craft and Cult of Cook's Knife

By: Tim Hayward

4.28

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

'Hayward, one of the... best food writers alive, every page a different blade, glintingly pictured … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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24. Sharp: The Definitive Introduction to Knives, Sharpening, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs

By: Josh Donald

3.80

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Sharp is a knife skills class in book form and an introduction to the best knives you can buy from … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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25. Thinking & Eating: Recipes to nourish and inspire

By: The School of Life

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking cookbook exploring the psychology of food and how to eat to nourish the mind an… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Michael W. Twitty

3.86

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The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

4.20

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

4.17

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Benjamin Myers

4.33

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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Clare Hunter

4.09

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Catherine Hanley

4.20

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