Mouthwatering Reads

Let's face it: as much as we would like to, we can't spend all of our time in the kitchen coming up with fantastic new recipes.  We have things like jobs, kids (or cats), and spouses that keep us occupied.  Occasionally, we even have other hobbies that keep us busy - like reading.  But you can easily incorporate your love of food in to your love of reading.  Here are some books I've read that have food as a main theme:


Fiction

• The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
• Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
• Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis
• Julia's Chocolates by Cathy Lamb

Nonfiction

• Food Rules by Michael Pollan
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

Biographies and Memoirs

• My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
• As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto edited by Joan Reardon
• Holy Hunger by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
• Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
• When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford