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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by
Michael Pollan
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 84,723 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by
Anthony Bourdain
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 77,776 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by
Barbara Kingsolver
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 59,115 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by
Eric Schlosser
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 145,545 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Michael Pollan
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 48,532 ratings
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My Life in France
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Julia Child
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 37,893 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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Ruth Reichl
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 16,138 ratings
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by
Ruth Reichl
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,582 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by
Bill Buford
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 12,577 ratings
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Eating Animals
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22,563 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by
Julie Powell
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 63,991 ratings
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Salt: A World History
by
Mark Kurlansky
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 16,757 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by
Michael Pollan
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 22,706 ratings
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A Year in Provence
by
Peter Mayle
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 24,944 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun
by
Frances Mayes
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 179,505 ratings
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
by
Anthony Bourdain
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 10,680 ratings
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
by
Harold McGee
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 5,387 ratings
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by
Ruth Reichl (Editor)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 9,516 ratings
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The Man Who Ate Everything
by
Jeffrey Steingarten
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 4,984 ratings
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
by
Michael Ruhlman
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
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The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
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Michael Ruhlman
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition
by
M.F.K. Fisher
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 2,923 ratings
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
by
Anthony Bourdain
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 12,373 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 6,560 ratings
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by
Steve Almond
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by
Tom Standage
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 4,841 ratings
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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
by
Laurie Colwin
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 2,027 ratings
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Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
by
Brian Wansink
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,587 ratings
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
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Molly Wizenberg
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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Gabrielle Hamilton
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 14,056 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Love
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 604,790 ratings
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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
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Rory Freedman
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 20,731 ratings
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
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Kathleen Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
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The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
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David Kamp
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
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French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
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Mireille Guiliano
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 7,334 ratings
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
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Marion Nestle
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
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Alisa Smith
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Jennifer 8. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
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Steve Ettlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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The Gastronomical Me
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M.F.K. Fisher
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Michael Pollan
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 18,685 ratings
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
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Morgan Spurlock
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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What to Eat
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Marion Nestle
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
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T. Colin Campbell
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 7,295 ratings
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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
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Phoebe Damrosch
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
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Diana Abu-Jaber
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
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Jacques Pépin
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 2,581 ratings
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An Edible History of Humanity
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Tom Standage
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 799 ratings
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The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America
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Mark Kurlansky
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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Consider the Oyster
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M.F.K. Fisher
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 459 ratings
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It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
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Jeffrey Steingarten
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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Dan Koeppel
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
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Novella Carpenter
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 4,644 ratings
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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Peter Singer
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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Diet for a Small Planet
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Frances Moore Lappé
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,194 ratings
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The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
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Joël Glenn Brenner
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 740 ratings
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The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
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Anthony Bourdain
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 5,886 ratings
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The Tummy Trilogy
by
Calvin Trillin
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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Joel Salatin
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 696 ratings
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
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David Lebovitz
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 4,755 ratings
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
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Gary Taubes
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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Mark Kurlansky
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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SEAsoned - A Chef's Journey with Her Captain
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Victoria Allman (Goodreads Author)
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
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Calvin Trillin
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
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Bich Minh Nguyen
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table
by
Nigel Slater
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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Gary Taubes
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 4,304 ratings
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Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
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Matthew Amster-Burton (Goodreads Author)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
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Chris Stewart
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 3,658 ratings
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I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking
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Alton Brown
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 7,549 ratings
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
by
Stewart Lee Allen
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 387 ratings
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads
by
Pascale Le Draoulec
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The True History of Chocolate
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Sophie D. Coe
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Toast
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Nigel Slater
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
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Spice: The History of a Temptation
by
Jack Turner
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 755 ratings
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French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
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Peter Mayle
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 4,031 ratings
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Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America
by
Linda Furiya
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
by
Jane Goodall
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
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Sara Roahen
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 360 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Dave Eggers
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 100,106 ratings
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Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman's Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker
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Gesine Bullock-Prado
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
by
William Alexander
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by
Mark Pendergrast (Goodreads Author)
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 538 ratings
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An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
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Elizabeth David
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 429 ratings
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
by
Anthony Bourdain
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,194 ratings
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The Miracle Diet: Lose Weight, Gain Health... 10 Diet Skills
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Susan Ford Collins (Goodreads Author)
4.88 of 5 stars 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity
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Candace Walsh (Goodreads Author)
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 116 ratings
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American Fried
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Calvin Trillin
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 135 ratings
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
by
Michael S. Sanders
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
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Amy Sutherland
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
by
Kathleen Flinn (Goodreads Author)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
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Lizzie Collingham
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
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Tracie McMillan (Goodreads Author)
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
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Frank Bruni
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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Steve Dublanica
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 6,826 ratings
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Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 8)
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Harvey Levenstein
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
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Grant Achatz
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,872 ratings
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
by
Trevor Corson
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking
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Alton Brown
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 2,247 ratings
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Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating: How to Choose the Best Bread, Cheeses, Olive Oil, Pasta, Chocolate, and Much More
by
Ari Weinzweig
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings
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