Anonymous
05/31/2026 10:32
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, Bill Buford
Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci
Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
+1 to Blood, Bones, and Butter; Kitchen Confidential; anything by Ruth Reichl
Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci
Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
+1 to Blood, Bones, and Butter; Kitchen Confidential; anything by Ruth Reichl
Anonymous
05/31/2026 02:35
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
I love anything by Lara Vapnyar.
I also enjoyed Eric Ripert's memoir 32 Yolks.
I also enjoyed Eric Ripert's memoir 32 Yolks.
Anonymous
05/30/2026 21:01
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
+1 for Julie and Julia
Also enjoyed Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Also enjoyed Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Anonymous
05/30/2026 20:57
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
Anonymous wrote:Just discovered this thread while searching for my next book and wanted to add two:
Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever
Your Table is Ready by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Also read Woolever recently.
Enjoyed, easy read. but didn’t love.
Anonymous
05/30/2026 20:50
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
Anonymous wrote:Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. It's a memoir and family history and was so, so interesting and moving.
I'm reading this now based on a recommendation in the book forum. There are recipes in the back. Already planning on trying out a few!
Anonymous
05/30/2026 16:39
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking. It's a memoir and family history and was so, so interesting and moving.
Anonymous
05/30/2026 16:37
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
Just discovered this thread while searching for my next book and wanted to add two:
Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever
Your Table is Ready by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever
Your Table is Ready by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Anonymous
03/02/2015 22:42
Subject: Re:Great food/cooking memoirs?
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.
Anonymous
03/02/2015 21:15
Subject: Re:Great food/cooking memoirs?
Second the Ruth Reichl suggestion, Comfort me with Apples and Tender at the Bone
Frank Bruni, Born Round
Miriam's Kitchen
Frank Bruni, Born Round
Miriam's Kitchen
Anonymous
03/02/2015 20:49
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
52 Loaves & The $64 tomato
Both by William Alexander
Both by William Alexander
Anonymous
03/02/2015 20:03
Subject: Great food/cooking memoirs?
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
03/02/2015 18:33
Subject: Re:Great food/cooking memoirs?
Sorry I didn't see that your original post included her.