Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
10 best books like Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking (Elissa Altman): The Observations, Mistress of the Art of Death, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, Gretel and the Dark, In the Fall, The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story, Dough: A Memoir, What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes
| Author | Jane Harris |
| ISBN | 0670037737 |
A powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories and mysterious disappearances set in Victorian Scotland.
Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley—a wide-eyed and feisty young Irish girl—takes a job as a maid in a big house...
Mistress of the Art of Death
| Author | Ariana Franklin |
| ISBN | 0399154140 |
A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice...
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
| Author | Ramona Ausubel |
| ISBN | 1594634882 |
Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar—married with three children—are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has occurred: There is no more money. More...
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
| Author | Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan |
| ISBN | 1401341284 |
"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape...
| Author | Eliza Granville |
| ISBN | 0241146453 |
A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Nazi Germany—with a dizzying final twist.
Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer—celebrated psychoanalyst—is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved,...
| Author | Jeffrey Lent |
| ISBN | 0330391968 |
A rich and masterful novel about love and the question of race in post-Civil War America; Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression in the Fall is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent...
| Author | Amy Dickinson |
| ISBN | 1401322859 |
Amy Dickinson has made a career out of helping others, through her internationally syndicated advice column "Ask Amy." Readers love her for her honesty, her small-town values, and for the fact that her motto is "I make the mistakes so you don't have to." In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson...
| Author | Rebecca Dana |
| ISBN | 0399158774 |
The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . .
A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny....
| Author | Mort Zachter |
| ISBN | 0820329347 |
Mort Zachter’s childhood revolved around a small shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side known in the neighborhood as “the day-old bread store.” It was a bakery where nothing was baked, owned by his two eccentric uncles who referred to their goods as “the merchandise.” Zachter grew up sleeping...
What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes
| Author | Deborah Madison |
| ISBN | 1423604962 |
Renowned vegetarian cookbook auhor Deborah Madison set out to learn what people chew on when there isn't anyone else around. The responses are surprising--and we aren't just talking take-out or leftovers. This is food-gone-wild in its most elemental form.
In a conversational tone, "What...
The Bitchy Waiter: Life on the Other Side of the Menu
| Author | Darron Cardosa |
| ISBN | 1454917245 |
Millions of people have, at some point in their lives, waited tables. Some only did it in college, or got out by sheer determination, good luck . . . or suicide. Others took it on as permanent employment. And many remain haunted by nightmare scenarios where they are the sole server in a restaurant packed...
Notes from a Young Black Chef
| Author | Kwame Onwuachi |
| ISBN | 1524732621 |
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree
By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...
| Author | Claire Bidwell Smith |
| ISBN | 1594630887 |
Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. "I've already come to the conclusion that I will probably be parentless by the time I am thirty," Claire writes in her powerful debut.
As her mother...
From the Rut to the Ledge
| Author | Suzanne Rutledge |
| ISBN | 1512798517 |
Tired of living in their “comfortable rut,” Suzanne and Mitch Rutledge decided to quit their jobs in America and take their seven-year-old son with them on a journey around the world. For nine months, they traveled slowly and volunteered, home schooled their second grader, and experienced what...
Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire
| Author | Barbara Lynch |
| ISBN | 1476795444 |
Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World
“If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you’ll devour the feisty and fun memoir by James Beard award-winning chef and philanthropist Barbara Lynch.” —Elle
Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in...
My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants
My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat—from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.
For reviewer,...
I Hear She's a Real Bitch
| Author | Jen Agg |
| ISBN | 0385686870 |
A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.
Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations...
| Author | Lisa Jackson |
| ISBN | 0821775790 |
A Woman Who Wants To Get Even . . .
The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when she's finished, there will be no one left. . .
Will...
