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Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table

10 best books like Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table (Linda Ellerbee): Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos, Walking to Vermont, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen, Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria, Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food, Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life, Sweets: A History of Candy, Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico, Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany, Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain

Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
AuthorNatacha Du Pont de Bie
ISBN0340825685
Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Ant Egg Soup is the result of her adventures in Laos, the stories of the people she met, the places she visited and, of course, the amazing food she tasted. Drinking raw turkey blood with herbs in a tribal...
Walking to Vermont
AuthorChristopher S. Wren
ISBN1416540121
A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed.
Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell...
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
AuthorLaurie Colwin
ISBN0060955317
More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm...
Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
AuthorMark Rotella
ISBN0865476969
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food
AuthorLeslie Miller
ISBN1580050921
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...
Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life
AuthorMichael Lee West
ISBN0060984422
Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous life centered around food and family—the story of how she went from non-cook to gourmet of words and victuals by watching a multitude of relatives squabble, prepare sumptuous repasts, and carry on honored traditions....
Sweets: A History of Candy
AuthorTim Richardson
ISBN1582343071
In Sweets, Tim Richardson takes us on a magical confectionery tour, letting his personal passion fuel the narrative of candy's rich and unusual history. Beginning with a description of the biology of sweetness itself, Richardson navigates the ancient history of sweets, the incredible range and...
Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
AuthorTony Cohan
ISBN0767920910
Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists...
Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany
AuthorIsabella Dusi
ISBN0743404114
Isabella Dusi, a native Australian, settled in Montalcino, a beautiful mountain eyrie famous for its wine and the proud nature of its inhabitants. Her acceptance into this close-knit community was a hard-won thing and has inspired Isabella to capture the true spirit of Montalcino. Vanilla Beans...
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain
AuthorDerek Lambert
ISBN0767904168
In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life there. [set as a headline]
As Lambert and his wife set about restoring their moldering casita on Spain’s...
The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost)
AuthorAdam D. Roberts
ISBN0553804979
As a self-taught chef and creator of The Amateur Gourmet website, Adam Roberts knows the challenges you face in bringing fresh, creative homemade meals to the table without burning down the house or bruising your self-esteem. But as he shows in this exciting new book, the effort is worth it and good eating...
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN0375759964
Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House. What he treasures is the superb local specialty. And he will go anywhere to find one. As it happens, some of his favorite dishes can be found only in their place of origin. Join...
Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater
AuthorAlan Richman
ISBN0060586303
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
AuthorRobb Walsh
ISBN1400077168
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...
Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning
AuthorDebby Bull
ISBN0786862556
Take a hip writer and a hilarious search for an end to depression, and then toss in some wild huckleberries: you get into a very interesting jam... Its a funny route out of the kind of heartache every person has felt who's had a relationship, no matter how bad, come to a screeching halt. Debby Bull learns...
Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
AuthorMimi Sheraton
ISBN0060501103
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...
Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes
AuthorAmanda Hesser
ISBN0393325598
"Tender, wry, passionate, truthful. To read Hesser's prose is to hunger for more."—Nigella Lawson

Cooking for Mr. Latte is a delightfully modern dating story, recipes included. It's the true story of the courtship between Amanda Hesser, a food writer for The New York Times and author of...
The Oxford Companion to Food
AuthorAlan Davidson
ISBN0192806815
Twenty years in the making, the first edition of Alan Davidson's magnum opus appeared in 1999 to worldwide acclaim. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity was recognized as utterly unique. Including both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that...
Italy for the Gourmet Traveler
AuthorFred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin takes us beyond the traditional tourist experience and lures us to special places, whether in big cities or out-of-the-way villages. Under his discerning eye, we learn about the food, wines, local bakeries, olive oil distilleries, cheeses, markets, restaurants, and best kept secrets...
Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals
AuthorDouglas Bauer
ISBN0307337847
Food isn’t just a gustatory pleasure; it is the stuff of life. At its best and most memorable, a meal becomes a story—and a story becomes a feast. In this collection of essays by some of the country’s finest writers, food is the central player in memories both exquisite and excruciating. Steve Almond...
Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet
AuthorRuth Reichl
ISBN0679642501
60 years of food writing — in a golden compilation capturing food publication Gourmet’s most deliciously epic moments. I have this book to thank for a (rather delayed, I know) introduction to the absolutely wonderful, legendary food writer who is MFK Fisher. So. Many. Good. Lines! That the stories...
The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
AuthorMargaret Visser
ISBN0140170790
Perhaps a bit dated (first published in 1991), this sweeping overview of the history of table manners, across cultures and across time, nevertheless retains charm and insight. It catches your attention with an opening chapter on the cultural rules of cannibalism in the different societies that practiced...
Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything
AuthorSimon Majumdar
ISBN1416576029
When Simon Majumdar hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stable but uninspiring desk job. As he wondered how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said: Go everywhere, eat everything. With that, he had found his mission...
Barbara Jordan: American Hero
AuthorMary Beth Rogers
ISBN0553380664
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even...
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