Nonfiction Books about Food

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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
By Steve Almond
338.4766 ALM
Almond presents a humorous portrait of regional candy makers and his own obsession with all things sweet.

Talking with My Mouth Full
By Bonny Wolf
641 WOL
A food commentator for NPR journeys into the heartland of America to discuss the foods we eat for every occasion, with essays on great regional specialties and more than seventy recipes.

Home Cooking
By Laurie Colwin
641.5 COL
Colwin shares her experiences in the kitchen with recipes and essays such as “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant” and “Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir.”

Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table
641.5 EAT
A New York Times Magazine food editor collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of the playwrights, novelists, and journalists featured in her column.

Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
By Bill Buford
641.5945 BUF
The author offers an account of his entry into the world of a professional cook-in-training, documenting his experiences in the kitchen of Mario Batali's restaurant Babbo and his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers.

Hidden Kitchens
By Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson
641.5973 SIL
A volume based on the popular NPR radio series explores how communities come together through food, combining popular stories from the show with new interviews, photographs, and recipes from a wide array of atypical kitchens.

Feeding a Yen
By Calvin Trillin
641.5973 TRI
Trillin anthologizes his food essays that appeared in the New Yorker, savoring local specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco.

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
By Moira Hodgson
BIO Hodgson
A food writer and restaurant critic describes her lifelong love affair with food in a memoir of her culinary adventures around the world.

Tender at the Bone
By Ruth Reichl
BIO Reichl
New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl shares lessons learned at the hands (and kitchen counters) of family members and friends throughout her life.