Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food
10 best books like Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food (Leslie Miller): Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image, Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, Best Food Writing 2011, Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes, It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style, Man with a Pan, The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom, Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
| Author | Harriet Brown |
| ISBN | 0345500881 |
In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
These evocative essays, from...
Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
| Author | Sylvia Lovegren |
| ISBN | 0226494071 |
Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions and fads, food—even bad food—has a history,...
| Author | Michael Lee West |
| ISBN | 0060984422 |
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....
| Author | Vivien Labaton |
| ISBN | 0385721021 |
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and...
Food writing has exploded in the past decade; nowhere else is it as easy and enjoyable to catch the trends, big stories, and upcoming stars than in the annual Best Food Writing collection. From molecular gastronomy to the omnivore’s dilemma, from meat-free to wheat-free to everything goes, there’s...
| 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,...
It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 1580052150 |
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find...
| Author | John Donahue |
| ISBN | 1565129857 |
Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families.
Mario Batali’s kids gobble up monkfish liver and foie gras. Peter Kaminsky’s youngest daughter won’t eat anything at all. Mark Bittman reveals...
The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom
| Author | Daniel Jones |
| ISBN | 0060565357 |
The husband of The Bitch in the House responds with a collection of original essays in which male writers describe what men desire, need, love, and loathe in their relationships and in the world today.
Cathi Hanauer's bestselling The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude,...
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0375759964 |
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
| 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...
Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals
| Author | Douglas Bauer |
| ISBN | 0307337847 |
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...
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Since its earliest days, "The New Yorker "has been a tastemaker literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes,...
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...
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times
| Author | Amanda Hesser |
| ISBN | 0393067637 |
New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers—playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists—in the magazine. Eat, Memory collects the twenty-six best stories and recipes to accompany...
American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes: A Library of America Special Publication
| Author | Molly O'Neill |
| ISBN | 1598530054 |
In a groundbreaking new anthology, celebrated food writer Molly O'Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth-watering...
From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
| Author | Barbara Haber |
| ISBN | 0142002976 |
Culinary historian Barbara Haber takes a unique approach to the history of cooking in America, focusing on a remarkable assembly of little-known or forgotten Americans who helped shape the eating habits of the nation. As Curator of Books at Harvard University's Schlesinger Library, Haber has access...
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
In this captivating blend of culinary history and popular culture, the award-winning author of Perfection Salad shows us what happened when the food industry elbowed its way into the kitchen after World War II, brandishing canned hamburgers, frozen baked beans, and instant piecrusts. Big Business...
Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
| Author | Gael Greene |
| ISBN | 0446695106 |
With her passion for fine food and, above all, her appetite for love and life, Gael Greene traces her rise from a Velveeta cocoon in the Midwest to powerful critic of New York magazine. Love and food, foreplay and fork play, haute cuisine and social history--all become inextricably linked as the author...
Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR's the Kitchen Sisters
| Author | Nikki Silva |
| ISBN | 1594865310 |
Inspired by the popular, award winning radio series on NPR's Morning Edition, Hidden Kitchens explores the world of secret, unexpected, below-the-radar community cooking across America: a midnight cab yard kitchen on the streets of San Francisco, a secret civil rights kitchen tucked away in a house...
Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
With grace, humor, and irresistible recipes, the author of Girl Sleuth takes us on her journey as an amateur chef, amateur farmer, and amateur parent
Melanie Rehak was always a passionate cook and food lover. Since reading the likes of Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Wendell Berry, she’d...
The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight
| Author | Mark Caro |
| ISBN | 1416556680 |
As a longtime vegetarian/near-vegan, I bought and read this book with a bit of apprehension - clearly the author was not on an anti-foie crusade, and I wasn't sure it was going to be a pleasant read. However, I was quickly reassured by the authors thoroughness in presenting all the information, and listening...
