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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 379,579 ratings — published 2000
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,277 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,533 ratings — published 2006
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.39 — 94,157 ratings — published 2017
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,531 ratings — published 2010
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,707 ratings — published 1825
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,549 ratings — published 2008
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,832 ratings — published 2008
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,922 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,165 ratings — published 1954
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 31,287 ratings — published 2001
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 96,717 ratings — published 2021
The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery: For Connoisseurs, Chefs, Epicures Complete With 2973 Recipes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,482 ratings — published 1921
The Flavour Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,195 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,196 ratings — published 1997
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,901 ratings — published 1974
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,809 ratings — published 2002
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,234 ratings — published 2007
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,744 ratings — published 2015
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,965 ratings — published 2013
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,346 ratings — published 2012
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 48,341 ratings — published 2005
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,281 ratings — published 2006
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,327 ratings — published 2006
Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,102 ratings — published 2003
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,251 ratings — published 2020
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,841 ratings — published 1961
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,364 ratings — published 2000
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,294 ratings — published 1998
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,620 ratings — published 2005
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,776 ratings — published 1938
The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,848 ratings — published 2012
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,928 ratings — published 2007
The Gastronomical Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,264 ratings — published 1943
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,147 ratings — published 2017
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,562 ratings — published 2001
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,756 ratings — published 2014
Modernist Cuisine. The Art and Science of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,590 ratings — published 2010
Food in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,612 ratings — published 1973
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,820 ratings — published 2008
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,942 ratings — published 2006
An Edible History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,218 ratings — published 2010
What Einstein Told His Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,277 ratings — published 2002
Consider the Oyster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,979 ratings — published 1941
Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,406 ratings — published 2018
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,011 ratings — published 2019
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.33 — 78,973 ratings — published 2016
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 83,321 ratings — published 1989
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,521 ratings — published 2015
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,568 ratings — published 2004
“In my cooking, I'm trying to avoid canned food preparing all from fresh and local ingredients.”
― Martins Ate's 108 Pure Vegetarian Food Cookbook: Excellent munchies recipes for a whole family
― Martins Ate's 108 Pure Vegetarian Food Cookbook: Excellent munchies recipes for a whole family
“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”
― Impromptu Scribe
― Impromptu Scribe












