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Books like The South Beach diet

Loved The South Beach diet by Arthur Agatston? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from food & drink, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Omnivore's Dilemma

    Michael Pollan · 2006 · Food & Drink

    Where our food really comes from, traced through four meals; the book that changed how many people eat.

  2. 2

    Kitchen Confidential

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000 · Food & Drink

    The wild, profane underbelly of professional kitchens; a memoir that made a chef a household name.

  3. 3

    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Samin Nosrat · 2017 · Food & Drink

    Cook better by mastering four elements rather than memorising recipes; a modern teaching classic.

  4. 4

    Fat Land

    Greg Critser · 2003 · Food & Drink

    "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

  5. 5

    Monsoon Diary

    Shoba Narayan · 2003 · Food & Drink

    The author interweaves stories about her life, family, and Indian culture with recipes.

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    Pinkalicious

    Victoria Kann · 2003 · Food & Drink

    A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.

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    French Women Don't Get Fat

    Mireille Guiliano · 2004 · Food & Drink

    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

    Morgan Spurlock · 2005 · Food & Drink

    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

    David L. Katz · 2005 · Food & Drink

    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

    Eric Schlosser · 2006 · Food & Drink

    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

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