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Just For You! -- Food-Focused Nonfiction

If you enjoy reading nonfiction about food and cooking, give these titles a try. Available in large print.

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  • The Best Cook in the World

    Tales From My Momma's Table

    Bragg, Rick,
    A food memoir, cookbook and tribute to the author's mother, sharing classic family recipes--many of them pre-dating the Civil War--written by a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author.
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018] — 641.5975 BRAGG
  • Sous Chef

    24 Hours on the Line

    Gibney, Michael
    An executive sous chef who has worked alongside cooks from some of the nation's leading restaurants documents an intense twenty-four-hour period that illuminates the allures and adversities of a professional culinary life.
    Book, 2014New York : Ballantine Books, ©2014. — 641.597471 GIBNEY
  • The Book of Eating

    Adventures in Professional Gluttony

    Platt, Adam (food writer),
    Living and eating in so many far-flung locations around the world, Platt developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to revelations that would prove part of his future career as a food critic.
    Book, 2019New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2019] — 641.5092 PLATT
  • Kitchen Yarns

    Notes on Life, Love, and Food

    Hood, Ann, 1956-
    Hood's signature humor and tenderness shows in this collection of tales of family love, loss, starting from scratch and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
    Book, 2019New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019] — 641.5 HOOD
  • Mastering the Art of French Eating

    Lessons in Food and Love From a Year in Paris

    Mah, Ann
    A dream of living a year in Paris - one dish at a time - doesn't turn out exactly the way it was envisioned, but Ann Mah still found a way to explore the foods of France.
    Book, 2013New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, c2013. — 641.5944 MAH
  • Four Fish

    the Future of the Last Wild Food

    Greenberg, Paul, 1967-
    Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Acclaimed author and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna .
    Book, 2010New York : Penguin Press, 2010. — 333.956 GREENBERG