All Points West March 2025: Tasty Reads

Books that explore our connections to food.

Updated March 10, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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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 : the science behind food that isn't food
Tulleken, Chris van
Paper Book
It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There's a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it's...

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