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…
Want to Read $ 14.99"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
"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
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1. 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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2. My Life in France
By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme
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Format: 425 pages,
In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more
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3. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
By: Deb Perelman
4.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited cookbook by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen--home cook, mom, photographer, and cel… read more
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4. The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
By: Mollie Katzen
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol … read more
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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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6. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
By: Gabrielle Hamilton
4.00
Format: 274 pages,
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more
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7. How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
By: Mark Bittman
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Great Food Made Simple Here's the breakthrough one-stop cooking reference for today's generation of… read more
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8. Jerusalem: A Cookbook
By: Yotam Ottolenghi , Sami Tamimi
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
With Jerusalem, Ottolenghi re-teams with his friend and co-owner of his restaurants, Sami Tamimi. B… read more
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9. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
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10. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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13. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
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14. 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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"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
15. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
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16. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
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17. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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18. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
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19. The French Ingredient: A Memoir
By: Jane Bertch
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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21. A Northern Light in Provence
By: Elizabeth Birkelund
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet an… read more
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