Our subject for December is food – and while we had a lot of people who thought that was a limiting subject – “I don’t want to read recipes” – food is a major factor of our culture and all others. Here is a listing of just a few of the titles that would fit nicely into this category:
My Life in France – Julia Child
Julie and Julia – Julie Powell
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Medium Raw – Anthony Bourdain
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse – Thomas McNamee
Tender at the Bone: Ruth Reichl
Comfort Me with Apples – Ruth Reichl
The Art of Eating – M. F. K. Fisher
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food – Judith Jones
Life is Meals – A Food Lover’s Book of Days – James and Kay Salter
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
Best Food Writing 2012 – Holly Hughes
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook – Deb Perelman
Bitter Greens – Anthony Di Renzo
The Men’s Health Big Book of Food and Nutrition – Joel Weber
The Essential Pepin – Jacques Pepin
In Nonna’s Kitchen – Carol Field
Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine – Joseph E. Dabney
The Recipe Club – Andrea Israel, Nancy Garfinkel
Kitchen Chinese – Ann Mah
The Body in the Vestibule – Katherine Hall Page
Growing Your Own food – Monte Burch
The Farmer’s Wife Guide to Growing a Great Garden and Eating from it Too – Barbara Doyen
The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking – Joseph E. Dabney
The Art of Simple Food – Alice Waters
Lost Arts: A Celebration of Culinary Traditions – Lynn Alley
Cooking for Jewish New Year – Jayne Cohen
Christmas in the Kitchen – Southern Living Magazine
Eat pray love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer
Eating: A memoir – Jason Epstein
The American Way of Eating – Tracie McMillan
Alice, Let’s Eat – Calvin Trillin
The Man Who Couldn’t Eat – Jon Reiner
Words to Eat by: Five foods and the Culinary History of the English Language – Ina Lipkowitz
The Italian Summer: Golf, Food, and Family at Lake Como – Roland Merullo
Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
Food Journeys of a Lifetime – National Geographic
The Food Bridge to Everywhere – Lenny Karpman
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew – Peter Mayle
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes – Elizabeth Bard