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Books like The Middlesteins
Loved The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg? 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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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Cook better by mastering four elements rather than memorising recipes; a modern teaching classic.
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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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Dragons love tacos
Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
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Cooked
"Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he d
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Food
The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring require
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Salt Sugar Fat
The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sug
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Bug food
Descibes in text and photographs food habits of insects and inverterbrates. Includes notes to parents and teachers. Suggested level: junior, primary.
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Cooking and Eating
Photographs and simple, levelled text compare and contrast modern and historical activities in a child-friendly format, making this a great took for discussing how life has changed over the years.
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The Food Lab
The science of why recipes work, tested obsessively; a doorstop reference for curious cooks.