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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 384,164 ratings — published 2000
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,320 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,900 ratings — published 2006
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.39 — 95,488 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 — 48,886 ratings — published 2010
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,713 ratings — published 1825
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,788 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 — 23,929 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,173 ratings — published 1954
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,402 ratings — published 2002
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 31,648 ratings — published 2001
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 97,692 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 — 1,484 ratings — published 1921
The Flavour Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,205 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,204 ratings — published 1997
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,902 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 — 3,815 ratings — published 2002
Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,103 ratings — published 2003
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,453 ratings — published 2007
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,916 ratings — published 2015
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,052 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 — 10,423 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 — 48,530 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 — 25,306 ratings — published 2006
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,595 ratings — published 2006
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,773 ratings — published 1938
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,351 ratings — published 2020
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 78,193 ratings — published 1961
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,379 ratings — published 2000
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,391 ratings — published 1998
The Gastronomical Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,275 ratings — published 1943
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,693 ratings — published 2005
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 — 4,879 ratings — published 2012
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,967 ratings — published 2007
Consider the Oyster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,995 ratings — published 1941
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,182 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 — 37,688 ratings — published 2001
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,905 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 — 48,977 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 — 7,027 ratings — published 2006
An Edible History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,254 ratings — published 2010
What Einstein Told His Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,289 ratings — published 2002
How to Cook a Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,073 ratings — published 1942
Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,433 ratings — published 2018
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,157 ratings — published 2019
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,227 ratings — published 2016
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.01 — 83,711 ratings — published 1989
Appetites: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gastronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,474 ratings — published 2016
“Because of the munchies I get after a fat spliff is the reason I care for tasty food!”
― 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
“After the interview and photo shoot, Cantu invited us to dinner at Moto, where we ate a poached scallop and "pearls" of squid ink sealed inside a polymerized shell made from a buttery saffron and seafood broth; beet-flavored cotton candy, sweet and earthy and fantastic; a menu printed on fully edible paper, with ink that tasted like a tangy aged Manchego cheese; and freeze-dried ice cream pellets with twenty-five-year-old balsamic vinegar, with the richness and complexity of a Sauternes.”
― Care and Feeding
― Care and Feeding












