If you liked
Books like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver? 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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Kitchen Confidential
The wild, profane underbelly of professional kitchens; a memoir that made a chef a household name.
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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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Food and culture
This reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women defin
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How to eat like a hot chick
Chocolate cake for breakfast and a pound of spinach for dinner? Looking and feeling your best has never been so easy, so guiltless or so much fun!Let's be honest, ladies, are you tired of hearing abou
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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
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French Women for All Seasons
For the legions of fans who asked for seconds after devouring French Women Don't Get Fat, a charming and practical guide to adding some joie to your vie and to your table, every day of the year.By let
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Heat
Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario
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In Defense of Food
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food
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Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at th