Culinary Memoirs

Updated September 19, 2022
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Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly /
Bourdain, Anthony
Paper Book
Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking Don't Eat Before Reading This. Bourdain spared no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. He uses the same take-no-prisoners attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to...
Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl
Powell, Julie
Paper Book
Julie Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalizeher marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, VolumeI, in a period of 365 days.The result is a masterful medley of BridgetJones' Diary meets Like...
My life in France /
Child, Julia 1912-2004
Paper Book
The bestselling story of Julia's years in France in her own words--and the basis for the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the...
Tender at the bone : growing up at the table /
Reichl, Ruth
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The debut memoir from the renowned author of Save Me the Plums, about the people who"steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world's leading food writers" (Chicago Sun-Times). "An absolute delight to...
Heat : an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta maker, and app
Buford, Bill
Paper Book
From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor atThe New Yorker, acclaimed author ofAmong the Thugs– a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his James Beard...
Crying in H Mart : a memoir /
Zauner, Michelle.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American--"in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself" (NPR). * CELEBRATING...
Blood, bones & butter : the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef /
Hamilton, Gabrielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK nbsp; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald * Newsday * The Huffington Post * Financial Times * GQ * Slate * Men's Journal * Washington Examiner * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus...
A homemade life : stories and recipes from my kitchen table /
Wizenberg, Molly
Paper Book
When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when she tried going back to her apartment in Seattle and returning to graduate school, she knew it wasn't possible to resume life as though nothing had...
The sweet life in Paris : delicious adventures in the world's most glorious--and
Lebovitz, David.
Paper Book
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three...
Yes, chef : a memoir /
Samuelsson, Marcus
Paper Book
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "VOGUE" - "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER "One of the great culinary stories of our time."--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times" " " It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook...
Taste : my life through food /
Tucci, Stanley
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Notable Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.
Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India /
Jaffrey, Madhur, 1933-
Paper Book
Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning “sweet as honey”) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over...
My Berlin kitchen : a love story, with recipes /
Weiss, Luisa
Paper Book
The Wednesday Chef cooks her heart out, finds her way home, and shares her recipes with us It takes courage to turn your life upside down, especially when everyone is telling you how lucky you are. But sometimes what seems right can feel deeply wrong. My Berlin Kitchen...
My ackee tree : a chef's memoir of finding home in the kitchen /
Barr, Suzanne (Cook)
Paper Book
Suzanne Barr's journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor's appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn't...

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