Delicious Reads: A Book List

Presenting a list of culinary fiction and nonfiction titles to make your mind and mouth water.

• The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber

• Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat by Grant Achatz

• Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to A Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford

• Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy by Paula Butturini

• The Wife of the Chef: The True Story of a Restaurant and Romance by Courtney Febbroriello

• Alone in the Kitchen with An Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone edited by Jenni Ferrari-Auler

• The Sharper your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn

• Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table by Danyelle Freeman

• Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of A Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

• Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James

• Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World’s Leading Correspondents edited by Matt McAllester

• The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin

• Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of A Restaurant Girlhood by Charlotte Silver

• Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift

• The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life by Ann Vanderhoof

• Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity by Candace Walsh

• A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

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