Great food/cooking memoirs?

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Anonymous wrote:Laurie Colwin:

http://www.amazon.com/Home-Cooking-Kitchen-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307474410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425338525&sr=1-1&keywords=laurie+colwin

Sorry I didn't see that your original post included her.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anthony Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential.' Great read.

+1

+1,000,000. Heat by Bill Buford is great too. I also recommend Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton and Julie and Julia by Julie Powell.

We can be friends - my first thoughts were also Heat and Blood, Bones, and Butter, quickly followed by Kitchen Confidential. Oddly, I haven't read J&J.

[Anonymous]

52 Loaves & The $64 tomato
Both by William Alexander

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Second the Ruth Reichl suggestion, Comfort me with Apples and Tender at the Bone

Frank Bruni, Born Round

Miriam's Kitchen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anthony Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential.' Great read.



+1



+1,000,000. Heat by Bill Buford is great too. I also recommend Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton and Julie and Julia by Julie Powell.



We can be friends - my first thoughts were also Heat and Blood, Bones, and Butter, quickly followed by Kitchen Confidential. Oddly, I haven't read J&J.

Yup. I haven't read J&J either. But the other three are the Trinity.

Kind of like Jesus, Elvis, and John Wayne, riding off into the Sunset of Destiny, watched over by the spirit of Hank Sr.