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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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
Love You a Latke
Noodle & Bao
What Goes with What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities
The Café at the Edge of the Woods
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
The Slowest Burn
Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians
Cookie Time
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
Milk Fed
Wonka
The Secret Ingredient
The Same Bright Stars
My Favorite Kidnapper (My Favorite, #1)
Guilt and Ginataan (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #5)
The Chicken Sisters
Do Me a Favor
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
The Friendship Club
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
A Bánh Mì for Two
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Learning How To Eat by Brian V. MenardBefore and After by Andrew ShanahanThe 2 Week Diet Plan by Brian Flatt by Brian FlattThe 21 Day Flat Belly Fix System by Todd LambThe Fat Decimater System by Kyle Cooper
Best Diet Books
187 books — 271 voters
James and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fruits and Vegetables in Titles
972 books — 181 voters

Practical Paleo by Diane SanfilippoIt Starts with Food by Dallas HartwigThe Primal Blueprint by Mark SissonWell Fed by Melissa JoulwanThe Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
Best Paleo/Primal Books
131 books — 149 voters
Chocolat by Joanne HarrisLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggJulie and Julia by Julie PowellEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Books That Make Your Taste Buds Water!
191 books — 137 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,079 books — 1,885 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanSalt by Mark KurlanskyFast Food Nation by Eric SchlosserAn Edible History of Humanity by Tom StandageIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Books about Food
548 books — 192 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
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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
Salt: A World History
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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