Molly Wizenberg's 'A Homemade Life'
What is your favourite book on food – that isn’t a cook book? Do you have a cherished tome you turn to when your culinary intellect needs stimulating?
I love Alix Kates Shulman’s Drinking The Rain - in fact so much that I have read it over fifty times in the last ten years – which is not really a book about food per se, but food is definitely a theme; finding it, preparing it, enjoying it.
Other people have recommended Isabel Allende’s Aphrodite, which I haven’t read yet, and I’ve also heard that Molly Wizenberg’s A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table is supposed to be wonderful (and if it’s anything like her blog, Orangette, it definitely will be).
Have you got any favourites?
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June 9, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The Hidden Chef
Without a doubt, my favorite food literature is Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential”. If you haven’t read it, be prepared to have your toque blown off!!!
June 14, 2009 at 11:28 am
eichiberlin
I just finished reading “Heat” by journalist Bill Buford who explored italian style cuisine with the help of the “Babbo”-crew in NYC.
The way he tells about his kitchen-experiences and fodd-travel to Italy is very intense. When he tells about working the grill in the “Babbo” I really imagined that I could feel that heat.
June 14, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Horace Jeffery Hodges
Try Margaret Visser‘s Much Depends on Dinner.
And thanks to the Shy Chef — and to Ms. Gisela Williams for directing me here — for a satisfying, albeit vicarious meal.
Jeffery Hodges
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July 17, 2009 at 11:40 am
Nicole
Like Water For Chocolate is a favorite of mine.