5 must-read essays books like Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel…

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Cover of Spingendo la notte più in là by Mario Calabresi

1. Spingendo la notte più in là

By: Mario Calabresi

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

E la mattina del 17 maggio 1972, e la pistola puntata alle spalle del commissario Luigi Calabresi c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel… read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing

3. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

By: Nora Ephron

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more

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4. How to Cook a Wolf

By: M.F.K. Fisher

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

M.F.K. Fisher's guide to living happily even in trying times, which was first published during the … read more

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5. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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6. Las despedidas

By: Jacobo Bergareche

3.71

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

La nueva novela de Jacobo Bergareche tras el éxito internacional de Los días perfectos . Diego y Cl… read more

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7. El affaire Arnolfini. Investigación sobre un cuadro de Van Eyck

By: Jean-Philippe Postel

3.89

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

El retrato del «matrimonio Arnolfini», que Jan van Eyck pintó en 1434, es uno de los cuadros más fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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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  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

Cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai

9. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

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  • food
"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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10. Yeguas exhaustas

By: Bibiana Collado Cabrera

4.18

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Una madre, con los dedos rígidos de triar naranjas en un almacén y limpiar pisos de vacaciones de o… read more

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"El autoodio, más o menos matizado, fue nuestra gran herencia"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Como todos sabéis, la educación femenina es esencialmente masoquista"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Probablemente uno de los motivos por los que fui una niña lectora era porque tenía que llenar todas las horas en que mi madre trabajaba"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Crecer consistió en ir entendiendo los motivos por los que mi madre casi siempre estaba seria y triste. El principal de ellos era sencillo, sencillo y apabullante: estaba cansada. No cansada metafóri…"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

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11. El descontento

By: Beatriz Serrano

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lo único peor que no tener empleo es tenerlo. Una novela afilada y salvaje sobre lo que queda de no… read more

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12. Los astronautas

By: Laura Ferrero

3.98

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

UNA HISTORIA EMOCIONANTE SOBRE LA FAMILIA. UNA AUTORA CUYA ESCRITURA «ALUMBRA EN LO MÁS OSCURO» (Ju… read more

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13. Gozo

By: Azahara Alonso

3.48

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

¿En qué momento mi vida empezó a ser accesible solo en vacaciones?», se pregunta la narradora, quie… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Amistades revolucionarias, yo os digo: la tierra ya no es de quien la trabaja, sino de quien la enseña."

-Azahara Alonso, Gozo

"como decía Buñuel: «Nunca he viajado por placer. Esa afición por el turismo, tan difundida a mi alrededor, me es desconocida. No experimento ninguna curiosidad por los países que no conozco y que nun…"

-Azahara Alonso, Gozo

"yo solía pensar que la rutina es una de las peores imposiciones, pero no tiene por qué resultar tan inconveniente. Puede haber un ritmo —de vida o de trabajo— que nos enseñe, dentro de lo mismo, a de…"

-Azahara Alonso, Gozo

"Es probable que el estilo de vida del lugar cambie por completo, que ya no sea viable dejar las llaves de casa puestas por fuera. Es seguro que el ecosistema se resentirá, reconocen todos. Pero es im…"

-Azahara Alonso, Gozo

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14. Ensayo general

By: Milena Busquets

3.64

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Instantáneas de una vida. Un lienzo impresionista de momentos alegrías, dolor, recuerdos, anhelos…… read more

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  • essays
Cover of La historia de los vertebrados by Mar García Puig

15. La historia de los vertebrados

By: Mar García Puig

4.09

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Una novela sobre la ansiedad y el poder sanador de las historias de las mujeres que nos precedieron… read more

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16. Mi padre alemán

By: Ricardo Dudda

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Finalista del II Premio de No Ficción Libros del Asteroide. «Mi padre nació en 1940 y yo en 1992. N… read more

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17. Material de construcción

By: Eider Rodríguez

4.12

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

«Una poética implacable contra el dolor, una mirada al mundo que redefine el pasado, un modo de ent… read more

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Cover of House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift) by Myquillyn Smith

18. House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift)

By: Myquillyn Smith

4.37

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Cuina! o barbàrie

By: Maria Nicolau

4.53

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Entusiasta, inconformista i hilarant, Maria Nicolau ens obre les portes a una cuina rica, sostenibl… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
Cover of Amapolas en octubre by Laura Riñón Sirera

20. Amapolas en octubre

By: Laura Riñón Sirera

3.96

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Entre una habitación de hospital y una librería de ensueño, llamada JO, discurre la vida de una muj… read more

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"Qué vivos están los muertos si no los despedimos."

-Laura Riñón Sirera, Amapolas en octubre

"Sigo creyendo que los miedos desaparecen cuando los ignoramos."

-Laura Riñón Sirera, Amapolas en octubre

"Adiós es alejarse sin mirar atrás, es dar la espalda y olvidar."

-Laura Riñón Sirera, Amapolas en octubre

"Es sensacional cómo algunos libros consiguen transportarnos hasta el lugar que anhelamos."

-Laura Riñón Sirera, Amapolas en octubre

Cover of Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women by Alissa Wilkinson

21. Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

By: Alissa Wilkinson

3.64

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be? That's the question fi… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays

7 Top nonfiction books like Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin

Transform Your Habits

Spingendo la notte più in là

Mario Calabresi

4.00

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Laurie Colwin

3.50

Transform Your Habits

El affaire Arnolfini. Investigación sobre un cuadro de Van Eyck

Jean-Philippe Postel

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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

Dwight Garner

3.88

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19 Top audiobook books like Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women by Alissa Wilkinson

Transform Your Habits

When Ghosts Come Home

Wiley Cash

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun

4.02

Transform Your Habits

No Two Persons

Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Joan Is Okay

Weike Wang

3.67

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