Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl that features a different bookish topic every week.
Today’s topic is Books Involving Food
I love food! I love books! And I love books about food too! Today’s topic was really fun to curate, and I’m excited about reading, and rereading, many of these books below. What interesting books involving food did you come across for today’s topic? I’d love to know!
Top Ten Books Involving Food
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain – This was the first book that came to mind for today’s topic. I read the book a long time ago and remember loving it, but I didn’t make any notes and I don’t remember much about it anymore. Time for a reread maybe?
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver – I love stories about self-sustainability and growing your own food even if I doubt I’d ever be able to do it myself. It’s inspiring to see other people do it!
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan – I took a few nutrition courses many years ago and these was one of the books we studied. I rated it 5 stars but I don’t remember much about it individually because I was reading so many other similar books for the course.
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser – This book was written more than 20 years ago, and I wonder if much has changed since then with our eating habits. There are a lot more healthy options out there now, which is very encouraging and convenient, but I believe to some extent, we are still a fast food nation.
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell – I loved the movie with Amy Adams and Meryl Streep when it came out but I haven’t read the book. I love the idea of cooking through all the recipes in a cookbook as a challenge though.
- On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee – This was another book I bought for my nutrition course. I only read parts of it because they were assigned, but I found it fascinating and still mean to read through the rest of it.
- Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop – I love Sichuan food and I’ve heard good things about Fuchsia Dunlop’s memoir. I want to read this sooner than later.
- Stir by Jessica Fechtor – This one sounds so compelling. The author had a brain aneurysm and nearly died and her journey to recovery involved relearning to cook. I’m curious to read it.
- Gulp by Mary Roach – Mary Roach has got lots of great popular science books I want to read. This one happens to be about food and our alimentary canal.
- Taste by Stanley Tucci – I love Stanley Tucci as an actor, and I know he’s also a foodie and a chef. He has his own cookbook and he also acted in Julie & Julia, by the way. I want to read about his life through food.
Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them? Would you read any of these books?
I never read the book, but I did see the Julie and Julia movie. If I remember right, I thought it was good but if nothing else, I know the acting would be good considering the cast list. 🙂
Heheh, “Gulp” is more of an indirect connection there. 😀 It’s been a few years since she released anything! Pollan and Schlosser made my list as well. Didn’t realize Tucci was an author!
Not sure if WP just ate my comment or what, but I didn’t realize Tucci was an author! Love his work, especially in The Terminal and Margin Call. Schlosser & Pollan made my list as well.
I talked over my list with my husband and mentioned GULP then I forgot to add it. Good catch!
Food in Books
These look interesting. I enjoyed doing this prompt as I love books with food references!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/top-ten-tuesday-books-involving-food-that-are-not-cookbooks/
I haven’t read any of these.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2024/09/03/top-ten-tuesday-books-involving-food/
I love how you focused your list on nonfiction books.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/foodies-in-books-ten-books-featuring-food/
Fast Food Nation was a good read.
I’ve read all of these except On Food and Cooking and Stir. Thanks for sharing your list.
I was not a fan of Kitchen Confidential, I have Stanley’s book on my TBR. Happy reading. My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/books-involving-food-that-are-not-cookbooks/
Taste is a good book. I’ve made his garlic spaghetti recipe a few times.
I run a monthly link up for books about food. I’d love to have you link up your post and any others you write about foodie books. https://www.spiritblog.net/september-2024-foodies-read/
I really ought to pick up Kitchen Confidential one day. Lots of great choices here today.
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The only one of these that I have read is Julie and Julia. Great list!
I haven’t read any of these and I think I need to read more nonfiction (not cookbook) about food!
This (somehow!) reminds me that I should probably have put Charles Spence’s Gastrophysics on my list… that one was fun.
I need to read more Mary Roach!
I think the Anthony Bourdain book would be interesting.
I’ve read Gulp and Taste!! I should have gone the non-fiction route for some of mine!! Great list
I love the variety of books that people are sharing in their lists today! It’s so fun to see the different interpretations, like how you have mostly non-fiction and other people chose cozy mysteries or books with food in the title or on the cover! 🙂
Oooh, a bunch of non-fiction books today! I love that. Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore’s Dilemma are on my TBR already, but now I’m curious about Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper too, even though I don’t know anything about Fuchsia Dunlop. (I wouldn’t be reading it for the memoir part. I’d be reading it for the food exploration.)
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2024/09/03/top-ten-tuesday-non-cookbook-foodie-books/
(Sorry I’m late! The Monday holiday messed with my sense of time.)
I have not read any of these though Gulp sounds really interesting! One food book I read that I can think of is Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
I have read 8 of your 10. Need to check out Gulp and On Food and Cooking. Thanks