Cookbooks or Food Stories

Are you getting hungry? These books will surely whet your appetite.

Updated May 29, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Milwaukie Ledding Library
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The American way of eating undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the dinner table
McMillan, Tracie
CD
What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a...
The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
Stone, Daniel
Paper Book
David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater. Fairchild's finds weren't just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that...
Gran cocina latina : the food of Latin America
Presilla, Maricel E.
Paper Book
The 2013 James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year How to cook everything Latin American. Gran Cocina Latina unifies the vast culinary landscape of the Latin world, from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean. In one...
In defense of food
Pollan, Michael.
CD
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. .
The language of food : a linguist reads the menu
Jurafsky, Dan
CD
Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out...
Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2022 A Library Reads Pick An Indie Next Pick A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's novel of high...
Recipes for love and murder
Andrew, Sally
Paper Book
A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first entry in a delicious crime set in rural South Africa--a flavorful blend of The #1 Ladies Detective Agency and Goldie Schulz series, full of humor, romance, and recipes and featuring a charming cast of characters. Tannie Maria...
Soul food : the surprising story of an American cuisine, one plate at a time
Miller, Adrian.
Paper Book
2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that...
When in doubt add butter
Harbison, Elizabeth M.
CD
The New York Times bestselling author of Always Something There to Remind Me delivers a hilarious and heartfelt new novel about a personal chef and her search for true love From the New York Times bestselling author of  Shoe Addicts Anonymous  and...

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