All Points West March 2025: Tasty Reads

Books that explore our connections to food.

Updated March 11, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Chop suey nation : the Legion Cafe and other stories from Canada's Chinese restaurants
Hui, Ann
Paper Book
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included--her parents had run their...
Relish : my life in the kitchen
Knisley, Lucy
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at...
Sourdough : a novel
Sloan, Robin
Paper Book
From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer...
Ultra-processed people : why we can't stop eating food that isn't food
Tulleken, Chris van
Paper Book
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * The bestselling and eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and impact of ultra-processed food. With a new Afterword by the author. Named a Best...

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