Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.
The following list includes other authors who write memoirs, essays, and books about wine, bread, olive oil, Tabasco sauce and other random foodstuffs as well as the restaurant world. Enjoy reading them and look for a book list of fiction titles set in the culinary world coming soon.
Interested in one or more of these books? Click the mouse on the book title to read more about it and order it from your local CLEVNET library.
- Blanchard, Melinda
- A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
- Boorstin, Sharon
- Let Us Eat Cake: Adventures in Food and Friendship
- Bourdain, Anthony
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Buford, Bill
- Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Clark, Gillian
- Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef’s Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood and the Family Meal
- De Guise, Lucien and Zahir Sutarwala
- Spice Journeys: Taste and Trade in the Islamic World
- Deutchmann, Alan
- A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma
- Febbroriello, Courtney
- Wife of a Chef: The True Story of a Restaurant and a Romance
- Flinn, Kathleen
- The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry: Love Laughter and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School
- Ginsberg, Debra
- Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
- Greene, Gael
- Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
- Jurgensen, Dalia
- Spiced: A Pastry Chef’s True Stories of Trials by Fire
- Loomis, Susan Herrmann
- On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town
- McInerney, Jay
- A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine
- McNamee, Thomas
- Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
- Reichl, Ruth
- Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table
- Reichl, Ruth
- Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table
- Reichl, Ruth
- Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
- Reichl, Ruth
- Endless Feasts: 60 Years of Writing from Gourmet
- Rothfeder, Jeffery
- McIlhenny’s Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire
- Ruhlman, Michael
- The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute
- Salter, James
- Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
- Sanderson, Catherine
- Petite Anglaise: A True Story
- Wallace, Benjamin
- The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
- West, Michael Lee
- Consuming Passions: A Food Obsessed Life
- Wizenberg,Molly
- Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
