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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.20 — 407,773 ratings — published 2000
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.39 — 101,087 ratings — published 2017
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,467 ratings — published 1984
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 24,622 ratings — published 2008
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,421 ratings — published 2006
Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.12 — 203,313 ratings — published 1931
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.25 — 80,002 ratings — published 1961
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,029 ratings — published 2015
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.16 — 94,701 ratings — published 2006
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.95 — 49,306 ratings — published 2005
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,691 ratings — published 2008
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,162 ratings — published 2001
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,633 ratings — published 2001
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 50,472 ratings — published 2010
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,490 ratings — published 2006
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,912 ratings — published 1974
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.00 — 103,529 ratings — published 1998
The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,048 ratings — published 1999
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.71 — 161,426 ratings — published 2005
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,781 ratings — published 1938
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,364 ratings — published 2013
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,204 ratings — published 1997
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.18 — 101,161 ratings — published 2021
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,212 ratings — published 2009
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,734 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,436 ratings — published 2007
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,732 ratings — published 2012
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,846 ratings — published 1990
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,203 ratings — published 1954
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,396 ratings — published 2014
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,765 ratings — published 1976
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,241 ratings — published 1997
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,526 ratings — published 2001
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.68 — 74,491 ratings — published 2000
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.75 — 81,064 ratings — published 2002
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,706 ratings — published 2007
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,723 ratings — published 2019
Yes, Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,906 ratings — published 2012
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 14,979 ratings — published 2005
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,673 ratings — published 2012
Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,649 ratings — published 2009
Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,171 ratings — published 1992
The Silver Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,388 ratings — published 1950
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.15 — 141,576 ratings — published 1953
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,412 ratings — published 2000
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,831 ratings — published 2009
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,245 ratings — published 2017
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,970 ratings — published 2003
The Last Suppers (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,447 ratings — published 1994
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,751 ratings — published 2020
“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.”
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“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”
― The Fate of Arcrea
― The Fate of Arcrea
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