If you liked
Books like Kitchen Confidential
Loved Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from food & drink, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Where our food really comes from, traced through four meals; the book that changed how many people eat.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Cook better by mastering four elements rather than memorising recipes; a modern teaching classic.
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Fat Land
"Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factors making our calories stick, and shows how and why children are too often the
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Monsoon Diary
The author interweaves stories about her life, family, and Indian culture with recipes.
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Pinkalicious
A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
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The South Beach diet
A renowned cardiologist discusses the importance of understanding the glycemic index values of foods and presents a weight-loss program that includes meal plans and recipes.
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French Women Don't Get Fat
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny--and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, dr
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Don't Eat This Book
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast f
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The Flavor Point Diet
Think of your most addictive foods, the ones that make you lose control--they're usually a jumble of sweet, salty, and savory flavors. Eaten alone, none of those flavors will make you fat. But when yo
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Chew on this
A behind-the-scenes look at the fast food industry. This book reveals the truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken "nugget" really is, and how the fast food industry has b