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Books for Foodies
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items This list is for anyone hungry for their next exciting read! If you devour books regarding food, fiction and non-fiction alike, you're sure to find something tasty here.
Kurlansky really knows his stuff, and if the history of northern Atlantic communities and economies (read: Vikings) is of any interest, you'll like this one! Entire civilizations have this one fish to thank for their growth
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed
This coming of age novel follows the classic tale of a young girl who moves to the big city, but she learns more than she bargained for working in a highly regarded restaurant. Her quirky coworkers introduce her to the chaos of working in restaurants...
Sweetbitter: A novel
This is the autobiographical true story about a journalist whose amateur passion for wine lead her to pursue becoming a sommelier. She reveals the obsessive and eccentric tendencies of her fellow wine snobs and nerds, aka cork dorks
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure
Danny Meyer's autobiography reveals his intimate philosophy of hospitality, centered around people and team-building. He candidly shares the life lessons that lead him to open some of NYC's most well-reknowned restaurants, starting with Union Square ...
Setting the Table: Hospitality in Business
Ark of Taste is the output of one of the Slow Food organization's most fascinating projects. This book catalogs some of the most rare and endangered foods originating in the USA, in an effort to preserve and protect them as important cultural artifac...
The Ark of Taste: Distinctive U.S. Foods
I simply could not leave this one off the list. This is the iconic and empowering true story of a women leaving behind the life she thought she wanted to discover what passions await her abroad
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
This fiction novel by acclaimed NYTimes food critic follows the exciting tale of a young girl who moves to NYC for an intriguing job at a magazine. She discovers a trove of letters in the old building that houses the magazine which leads her on a pas...
Delicious!: A Novel
This is the dysfunctional coming-of-age story about a pregnant teen girl who becomes obsessed with one of the customers at her pizza delivery job
Pizza Girl: A Novel
At the height of his restaurant empire, chef and owner of Momofuku David Chang reflects on the trials and tribulations on his journey to becoming a celebrated facet of NYC dining. An interesting reflection to read years some later, now that much of t...
Eat a Peach: A Memoir
Many of Michael Pollan's books belong on this list, but “In Defense of Food” is a great one to start with. Famous already for “The Omnivore's Dilemma,” he tackles here some of the great paradoxes in the food industry and proposes a realistic manifest...
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The dramatic tale behind your favorite breakfast fruit. All sorts of international hijinks, espionage, and corporate sabotage, this high-drama story will really make you think about bananas!
The Fish That Ate the Whale: America's Banana King