food books recc

[mizzdee]

Pleaze..not cookbooks per se
but anything on the subject of eating, food e
tc that you like
Bios, fiction..memoirs..anything! Thank you..

[AmyH]

I recently enjoyed the book Edible Stories by Mark Kurlansky. It's a novel told in 16 parts, all tied together by some overlapping characters. His novel Boogaloo on Second Avenue also has a lot of food in it.

[marfood]

don't mean to reply...keeps sending me to reply box. Help!!!

[marfood]

sorry, didn't mean to click here

[ttoommyy]

Have you seen these threads?

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/868661

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/884896

[bear]

I'd like to put out a recommendation for Eating For Beginners by Melanie Rehak. It is a lovely book. Melanie chronicles her explorations about becoming more aware and conscious of food sources and production as she struggles with the challenging task of her toddler son's restrictive and unusual eating habits. She spends some time working at a New York restaurant, applewood, as well as working a few days at organic farms, cheese-making farms, farms that raise animals for meat, and a brutal and amusing day aboard a deep-sea fishing vessel.

The book has humor and heart. I really enjoyed it and was sad to finish it.

[pdxgastro]

I got 'Marcella Hazan's autobiography (memoir?) and it was pretty interesting reading. "Amarcord: Marcella remembers"

[LeoLioness]

Laurie Colwin's essays (Home Cooking and More Home Cooking). My absolute favorites. I read them for the first time about ten years ago and remember feeling sad when I read her bio and found out she had died in the early 1990s. Her writing felt like I had been listening to a friend.

[meatnveg]

Playing For Pizza - John Grisham

This book, and the glorious descriptions of the meals, is the only reason younger me made it to Parma,Italy.

[alliegator]

I loved this book. Read it several years ago, I believe I'll dig it up and read it again :)

[Paprikaboy]

I love reading about food and especially food and travelogues.
Only trouble is I keep saying to my SO lets got to Sicily , why she says?
So we can have beef spleen in a bun.
Lets go to San Sebastian I say so we can eat hake cheeks.
She's getting a bit fed up of it now
Anyway ,some books I have enjoyed:

Eat my globe- Simon Majumdar

A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain-Paul Richardson

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespai - Matthew Fort

Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa- Matthew Fort

The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes- Tom Parker Bowles

Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger - Nigel Slater