Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life
10 best books like Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life (Michael Lee West): Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, The Gastronomical Me, The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater, Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen, The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings, American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060955309 |
Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as...
My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes
| Author | Melanie Dunea |
| ISBN | 1596912871 |
A gorgeous photo collection where world-reknowned chefs describe their ideal last meal, featuring Ferran Adrià, José Andrés, Lidia Bastianich, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Scott Conant, Gabrielle Hamilton, Eric Ripert and many more. Includes recipes.
Chefs have been playing...
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
| Author | Jenni Ferrari-Adler |
| ISBN | 1594489475 |
A delightful and unexpected collection of pieces by writers, foodies, and others-including Nora Ephron, Marcella Hazan, and Ann Patchett-on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.
If, sooner or later, we all face the prospect of eating alone, then Alone in the Kitchen...
| Author | M.F.K. Fisher |
| ISBN | 0865473927 |
If one imagines M.F.K. Fisher's life as a large colorful painting, it is here, in The Gastronomical Me, that one sees the first lines and sketches upon which that life was based. In what is the most intimate of her five volumes of her "Art of Eating" series, the reader witnesses the beginnings of a writer...
The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater
| Author | Nigel Slater |
| ISBN | 1592402348 |
"Right food, right place, right time. It is my belief—and the point of this book—that this is the best recipe of all. A crab sandwich by the sea on a June afternoon; a slice of roast goose with apple sauce and roast potatoes on Christmas Day; hot sausages and a chunk of roast pumpkin on a frost-sparkling...
| Author | Jen Lin-Liu |
| ISBN | 0151012911 |
A memorable and mouthwatering cook’s tour of today’s China
As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for China’s exploding food scene. When she decided to enroll in a local cooking school—held in an unheated classroom with...
Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen
| Author | Donia Bijan |
| ISBN | 1565129571 |
For Donia Bijan's family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California's Bay Area, where the familiar flavors of Bijan's mother's cooking formed a bridge to the life...
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0374524173 |
In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed us that the most glorious food in an American city was not to be found at the pretentious rooftop restaurant he called La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books, he established himself as "our funniest food writer" and, in Craig...
American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads
| Author | Pascale Le Draoulec |
| ISBN | 0060957328 |
Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have a place?
As...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris
| Author | Lauren Shockey |
| ISBN | 0446559873 |
At the French Culinary Institute, Lauren Shockey learned to salt food properly, cook fearlessly over high heat, and knock back beers like a pro. But she also discovered that her real culinary education wouldn't begin until she actually worked in a restaurant. After a somewhat disappointing apprenticeship...
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
| Author | Elizabeth David |
| ISBN | 1558215719 |
I've been reading this book for quite some time, mostly while eating lol. I really like to read about food, and the author definitely has a way with words, but sometimes her elitism got on my nerves. Especially when she talks about servants as being nothing more than machines... Also, I understand the...
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
| Author | Patricia Volk |
| ISBN | 0375724990 |
Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just full–you’re stuffed. Volk’s family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when...
| Author | Leslie Miller |
| ISBN | 1580050921 |
Move over, Betty Crocker. Women are reclaiming their pots and pans, but it's a new era in the kitchen. Today’s generation of women is putting a fresh spin on the "joy of cooking" — and eating and entertaining. Women both in and out of the culinary profession share their stories about the many ways food...
| Author | Frank Stitt |
| ISBN | 1579652468 |
R. W. Apple, Jr., of The New York Times credits third-generation Alabamian Frank Stitt with turning Birmingham into a "sophisticated, easygoing showplace of enticing, southern-accented cooking." His southern peers think his cooking may have a more profound sense of place than any of theirs. His...
| Author | Shoba Narayan |
| ISBN | 0812971078 |
Shoba Narayan's Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture.
Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America,...
The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love
| Author | Michelle Maisto |
| ISBN | 0812979192 |
“On our first date, Rich ordered a chocolate soufflé at the beginning of the meal, noting an asterisk on the menu warning diners of the wait involved. At the time, I imagined he did it partly to impress me, which it did, though today I know well that he’s simply the type of man who knows better than to...
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
| Author | Laura Schenone |
| ISBN | 0393061469 |
James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives as she goes. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the grit of New Jersey's industrial wastelands...
Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater
| Author | Alan Richman |
| ISBN | 0060586303 |
A hilarious series of culinary adventures from GQ's award-winning food critic, ranging from flunking out of the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon to dining and whining with Sharon Stone.
Alan Richman has dined in more unlikely locations and devoured more tasting menus than any other restaurant...
Are You Really Going to Eat That?: Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker
| Author | Robb Walsh |
| ISBN | 1400077168 |
From the top of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica for the perfect cup of coffee to the jungles of Thailand for an encounter with the abominably smelly “stinkfruit,” Robb Wals has traveled the globe, immersing himself in some of the world’s most interesting culinary phenomena. In Are You Really Going...
Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
| Author | Mimi Sheraton |
| ISBN | 0060501103 |
As one of the country's foremost restaurant reviewers, Mimi Sheraton set the standard for food writing and criticism. In this engrossing memoir, the doyenne of food criticism explains how she developed her passion for writing about food and wine, sharing the secrets of her career, including her years...
Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories
What does America really eat? Which recipes do real home cooks turn to again and again? More often than not, they are dishes handed down from great aunts and painstakingly copied out of smudged recipe boxes rather than the creations of celebrity chefs. Bonny Wolf, food commentator for NPR's "Weekend...
