The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
By: Adam Platt
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our …
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1. The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
By: Alex Prud'Homme
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as a TV personality and beloved cookbook author, a sequ… read more
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- memoir
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
"I have been seduced and I have seduced. But this, dear friends, and gentle mouths...this was a Seduction."-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
"No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing," she assured readers. "This is my invariable advice to people: Learn to cook - try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all …"-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
"In keeping with the personal tone, Jones wanted to call the book From Julia's Kitchen, but the author demurred: "People won't know who 'Julia' is," she said. "Of course they will!" the editor retorte…"-Alex Prud'Homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
2. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
By: Mary Roach
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Life Among the Savages
By: Shirley Jackson
3.94
Format: None pages,
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting p… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
5. Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
By: Grant Achatz , Nick Kokonas
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue) shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him interna… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- foodie
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
By: Jacques Pépin
2.50
Format: None pages,
In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells th… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
7. Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
By: Jessica Fechtor
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jess… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- foodie
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8. Grand Forks: A History of American Dining in 128 Reviews
By: Marilyn Hagerty
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A legendary 86-year-old food critic brings together a collection of the best down-home, no-nonsense… read more
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- food and drink
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
9. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
By: Michael Gibney
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney us… read more
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- memoir
- foodie
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
By: Michael Moss
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500… read more
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11. Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It
By: Larry Olmsted
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster… read more
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12. Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef
By: Leonardo Lucarelli , Danielle Rossi , None
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketc… read more
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13. Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
By: Kevin West , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He kn… read more
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14. The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into … read more
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15. 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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16. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
By: Ruth Reichl
4.10
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- foodie
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
"The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country."-Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
17. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. 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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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food writing
"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
19. Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)
By: Katherine Arden
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this fo… read more
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- audiobook
"It will be dark in a few hours. Ghosts are stronger in the dark."-Katherine Arden, Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)
20. A Children's Bible
By: Lydia Millet
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more
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- audiobook
"The nuclear threat. So quaint."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"Once we lived in a summer country."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
21. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
By: Anthony Bourdain
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
22. Winter Counts
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
3.84
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more
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- audiobook
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
23. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
24. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
By: Wright Thompson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand… read more
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- memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"What became clear in Michigan was that Julian and Sissy have become the fully realized version of themselves through success. That's actually rare. I profile famous and successful athletes for a livi…"-Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
25. Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
By: Matt Lee
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets… read more
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- memoir
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- food writing
26. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
27. Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites
By: Mary Giuliani
3.71
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From awkward schoolgirl to Caterer to the Stars, Mary Giuliani weaves together a collection of hila… read more
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- memoir
- cooking
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Something for nothing is nothing. Do not work for free. Don’t be so trusting in business: I have learned this the hard way. Don’t say yes to people in power just because they have power. Have skin in…"-Mary Giuliani, Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites
"At one point I realized that if I didn’t start loving my life for exactly what it is in the moment, then everyone’s grass would always appear greener. I started to notice that a lot of people who we …"-Mary Giuliani, Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites
"When someone tells me that they want to quit their job and open a catering company because they love to entertain, I give them a little test. I ask them to imagine how it would feel to throw a party …"-Mary Giuliani, Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites
28. The Margot Affair
By: Sanaë Lemoine
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that… read more
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- audiobook
29. Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early … read more
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30. The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
By: Adam Platt
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our … read more
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- gastronomy
- food and drink
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31. Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End
By: Kevin Alexander
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in Amer… read more
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- foodie
- cooking
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