302983 Thu Mar 02 14:36:57 -0800 2006 19 29 Not About Food 0 1700174 Love reading personal accounts of food experiences. Have read Ruth Reichl, and some of Nigel Slater's "Toast". Always looking for more! Any suggestions? I've found a few titles under the Food History Books post. Also, I've posted separately for food accounts in fiction. Thanks! Link: http://click4good.blogspot.com Thu Mar 02 14:36:57 -0800 2006 0 nomadshan 1 1700179 If you haven't read it already, I think you need to start with George Orwell's _Down and Out in Paris and London_. Thu Mar 02 15:09:13 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Eric Eto 2 1700230 Check the link to Food Essays for a good selection, but another vote this time for Vincent Schiavelli's Bruculino, America--a tender, lyrical, and true New York Sicilian food odyssey from the 1950s. Fri Mar 03 10:50:13 -0800 2006 1700179 0 bob oppedisano 2 1700286 One of my most favorite books ever! Sun Mar 05 05:40:39 -0800 2006 1700179 0 CH Addict 1 1700184 There was a long thread a couple of months ago giving some great suggestions for food writing. I've linked it below to get you started. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/302715#1696826 Thu Mar 02 16:02:26 -0800 2006 1700174 0 DanaB 1 1700185 Most of MFK Fisher's books are food memoirs, and good to read. So is much of Ludwig Bemelmans's writing - a lot of his short stories are actually fictionalized memoir, as he grew up in the hotel/restaurant business and floated in and out of it all his life. On my shelf right here are Patricia Volk's "Stuffed" and Jim Harrison's "The Raw And The Cooked", the latter a tad self-indulgent and show-offy for my taste. Missing is Margaret Visser's "Much Depends On Dinner", a wonderful book which accidentally got yard-saled when we moved to LA - it's a history rather than a memoir, but I'll take any excuse to recommend it. And then two big favorites: James Beard's "Delights and Prejudices", and Waverley Root's "The Paris Edition". Thu Mar 02 16:08:50 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Will Owen 1 1700190 David Mas Masumoto's food/peach and grape farming memoirs: Four Seasons in Five Senses, Epitaph for a Peach and he has a few others. They are sentimental and enjoyable. Thu Mar 02 16:50:47 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Junie D 1 1700198 "L'Auberge of the Flowering Hearth" by Roy Andres de Groot and "The Man Who Ate Everything" by Jeffrey Steingarten could not be more unlike, yet each is a treasure in its own right. Thu Mar 02 19:37:37 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Sherri 2 1700205 "The Man Who At Everything" is a fantastic read. Highly recommended. Also you should seek out the "Pat Conroy Cookbook" which has memoirs along with some excellent recipes. Thu Mar 02 21:38:14 -0800 2006 1700198 0 Leper 3 1700242 Thanks for reminding me to get Pat Conroy's book out and re-savor. It is another treasure. Fri Mar 03 14:38:40 -0800 2006 1700205 0 Sherri 1 1700224 Anything by Laurie Colwin. Fri Mar 03 09:15:15 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Bruce 1 1700226 A.J. Liebling's short and wonderful piece, "A Light Lunch," -- "We were 23 years old and confirmed gluttons." Fri Mar 03 09:27:28 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Beevod 2 1700254 And don't forget Between Meals : An Appetite for Paris, by Liebling, a great journalist, who, as he used to say, could "write better than anyone who could write faster and faster than anyone who could write better." Fri Mar 03 17:53:24 -0800 2006 1700226 0 jbw 1 1700232 The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber Fri Mar 03 11:01:40 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Junie D 2 1700247 That is a great read. I have been racking my feeble brain trying to rmemeber that title. Fri Mar 03 15:56:15 -0800 2006 1700232 0 Candy 1 1700248 All of MFK Fishers books, and don't miss Calvin Trillin's Tummy Trilogy Fri Mar 03 15:58:21 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Candy 1 1700267 Calvin Trillin's Tummy Trilogy. Fri Mar 03 23:05:13 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Caitlin McGrath 1 1700281 Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice Fernand Point's Ma Gastronomie Jeremiah Tower's California Dish Alice Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Richard Olney's Reflexions Angelo Pellegrini's The Unprejudiced Palate Patience Gray's Honey From a Weed Henri Charpentier's Life a la Henri Have fun! Sun Mar 05 00:57:38 -0800 2006 1700174 0 Owen 1 1700285 hello,Alan Richman's Fork It Over is probably at your public library; easy, fun reading, wide ranging in experiences (Carolina bbq treks, stories from old NY/Catskills Jewish waiters). enjoy Sun Mar 05 03:26:53 -0800 2006 1700174 0 moto 1 1700479 Thank you all for the suggestions and links! I have my work cut out for me - yum! Sat Mar 11 15:43:36 -0800 2006 1700174 0 nomadshan