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Food Writing

1. The Saucier's Apprentice: One Long Strange Trip through the Great Cooking Schools of Europe

   Bob Spitz

   The education of a barbarian in the temples of haute cuisine.More

2. A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream

   Ferenc Máté

   "A sun-drenched memoir with a fairy-tale ending."—Kirkus ReviewsMore

3. The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family

   Laura Schenone

   A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.More

4. What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained

   Robert L. Wolke

   "Wolke is Martha Stewart with a PhD." —American ScientistMore

5. The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism: From 1600 to Modern Times

   Tristram Stuart

   “Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging.”—Steven Shapin, The New YorkerMore

6. What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science

   Robert L. Wolke, Marlene Parrish

   The scientist in the kitchen tells us more about what makes our foods tick.More

7. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances

   Laura Schenone

   A stunningly illustrated book that celebrates the power of food throughout American history and in women's lives.More

8. Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes

   Amanda Hesser

   "Tender, wry, passionate, truthful. To read Hesser's prose is to hunger for more."—Nigella LawsonMore

9. Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring

   David Mas Masumoto

   The nation's favorite literary farmer pays homage to the life of the senses.More

10. A Feast of Words: For Lovers of Food and Fiction

    Anna Shapiro

    "Anna Shapiro's books have all been delicious. But this one grants a wish of every voracious reader. Here at last, a book that no one can object to his reading at the table!" —Thomas MallonMore

11. The Physiology of Taste: Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

    "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, politician, magistrate, and literary man of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.More