Food

Food writing regards food not only as a substance, but also as a cultural phenomenon. Food writer John T. Edge explains how the genre views its topic: "Food is essential to life. It’s arguably our nation’s biggest industry. Food, not sex, is our most frequently indulged pleasure. Food—too much, not enough, the wrong kind, the wrong frequency—is one of our society’s greatest causes of disease and death." Food writer Mark Kurlansky links this vision of food directly to food writing, giving the genre's scope and range when he observes: “Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man’s relati ...more

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Eat a Peach
Evolving Vegan: Deliciously Diverse Recipes from North America's Best Plant-Based Eateries—for Anyone Who Loves Food
The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux
The Duke Who Didn't (Wedgeford Trials, #1)
Skinnytaste Meal Prep: Healthy Make-Ahead Meals and Freezer Recipes to Simplify Your Life: A Cookbook
Short & Sweet
Let's Fix Lunch: Enjoy Delicious, Planet-Friendly Meals at Work, School, or On the Go
The Good Book of Southern Baking: A Revival of Biscuits, Cakes, and Cornbread
Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop
100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More
A Place at the Table
Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream
Kiss My Cupcake
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes
Sugarcoated (Hot Cakes #1)
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Splat the Cat: I Scream for Ice Cream (I Can Read Level 1)
The Duke Who Didn't (Wedgeford Trials, #1)
Midnight at the Blackbird Café
Simmer Down
The Late Bloomers' Club
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Coconut Layer Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen #25)
Chocolate Cream Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen #24)
Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)
Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee BenderTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Cupcake Queen by Heather HeplerMake Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Food on the Cover
936 books — 402 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserSalt by Mark KurlanskyIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanEating the Empire by Troy Bickham
Books about Food
329 books — 159 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Best Traveling Vicariously
1,838 books — 1,594 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Food-Related Non-Fiction
918 books — 1,590 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Eating Animals
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Salt: A World History
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

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