Books that have really good food descriptions

[Anonymous]

Crying in H Mart. It's a sad but beautiful memoir about a young Korean American woman's connection through food to her dying/dead mother and mother's culture.

[Anonymous]

Redwall and the Lies of Locke Lamora are both fantasy with frankly mouthwatering food descriptions

My mother says Nero Wolfe always makes her hungry

[Anonymous]

Nora Ephron books. Especially Heartburn. I still use the Dijon vinaigrette recipe from it 30 years after reading

[Anonymous]

Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!

[Anonymous]

Elin Hilderbrands books all have great food descriptions.

[Anonymous]

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune, by Roselle Lim

https://www.amazon.com/Natalie-Tans-Book-Luck-Fortune/dp/1984803255

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang.

Her other two books also have good food descriptions.

https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Quotient-Helen-Hoang-ebook/dp/B075HXST4P?ref_=ast_author_dp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!

Pachinko made me remember — Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana is also delicious reading.

[Anonymous]

The Diane Mott Davidson mystery series. The main character is a caterer. Another major character is studying to be a chef. Each book will have a few recipes and lots of descriptions of food and preparing food.

[Anonymous]

It's a memoir but Stanley Tucci's book- Taste. He includes recipes as well.

[Anonymous]

The Red Sparrow series includes a recipe at the end of each chapter.
The first two books were tremendous, the last a little less so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both the Laurie Colwin ‘Home Cooking’ books. I learnt of her untimely death after I had read her books and looked to read more of her work and was so sad to hear that. A NYTimes article about her described her as the proto blogger and that is so true.

Love these books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pachinko -- the saga of a Korean family in Japan over nearly 100 years. I loved this book, which left me craving Korean food!

Search -- an LA Times food writer joins the search committee for a new minister at her Unitarian church. This novel hits all the right "church-y" beats, plus it has recipes (Pledge Drive Chicken, anyone?)!

I loved Search! As a UU, it killed me.

[Anonymous]

The Cookbook Collector - I didn't love the plot but the food descriptions stood out.

[Anonymous]

Martin Walker's mystery series set in the Dordogne has lovely descriptions of food. As a character, Bruno, Chief of Police, is kind of annoying, but he's an excellent cook.

[Anonymous]

The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Age of Innocence, Garlic and Sapphires