All Points West March 2025: Tasty Reads

Books that explore our connections to food.

Updated March 10, 2025
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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...
Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
Garrett, Natalie Eve
Paper Book
"Eat Joy is the most lovely food essay book... This is the perfect gift." -Joy Wilson (Joy the Baker) Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by Martha Stewart Living "Magnificent illustrations add spirit to recipes and heartfelt narratives. Plan to...
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...
Love & saffron : a novel of friendship, food, and love
Fay, Kim
Paper Book
The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best...
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
New York Times Bestselling AuthorSMLIn his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Leavened by the same infectious intelligence, while taking on even more satisfying challenges, Sourdough marks the...
Ultra-processed people : why we can't stop eating 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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