Books about Food (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Updated June 6, 2024
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The secret history of food : strange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat
Siegel, Matt
Paper Book
An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us,...
Cook, eat, repeat : ingredients, recipes and stories
Lawson, Nigella
Ebook
The New York Times-bestselling cookbook author "reveals her mastery not only of the stove but also of the essay" with these recipes and reflections (Booklist)."Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it...
The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto...
From plant to plate
Gadzekpo, Darryl
Paper Book
Grow mighty ingredients, then transform them into delicious, plant-powered feasts with this sustainable cookbook. A visual feast for 7-9 year olds, From Plant to Plate is the perfect book to inspire kids to get growing, get cooking, and get plant-powered eating.
Frostbite : how refrigeration changed our food, our planet, and ourselves
Twilley, Nicola
Paper Book
How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we'll find something fresh and ready to eat? It's an everyday act - but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. The introduction of artificial refrigeration...

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