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Books like Good to eat

Loved Good to eat by Marvin Harris? 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

    Kitchen Confidential

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000 · Food & Drink

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

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    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.

  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

    The foolish tortoise

    Richard Buckley · 1985 · Food & Drink

    A tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters.

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    The psychology of eating and drinking

    A. W. Logue · 1985 · Food & Drink

    Examines the range of human and animal behaviour associated with obtaining and consuming food and drink. The book looks at how organisms regulate the amount they consume and the roles of learning and

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    Much Depends on Dinner

    Margaret Visser · 1986 · Food & Drink

    Food. We spend a good part of every day buying, preparing, eating, and savouring it. Only sleep and work take more time out of our lives. Margaret Visser uses the ingredients of an ordinary meal as a

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    Eat Up, Gemma

    Sarah Hayes · 1988 · Food & Drink

    Baby Gemma refuses to eat, throwing her breakfast on the floor and squashing her grapes, until her brother gets an inspired idea.

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    The rituals of dinner

    Margaret Visser · 1991 · Food & Drink

    This book is a commentary on the manifold meanings of the rituals of dinner; it is about how we eat, and why we eat as we do. We insist on special places and times for eating, on specific equipment, o

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    Fat is a feminist issue

    Susie Orbach · 1978 · Food & Drink

    Abstract: Compulsive eating is rooted in the social inequality of women. Drawing on case study experience, the meaning of fatness and thinness in our society is explored, and self-help guidelines are

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    Jiu guo

    Mo Yan · 1992 · Food & Drink

    When special investigator Ding Gou'er hears persistent rumors that there is cannibalism in the province called the Republic of Wine, he goes to learn the truth. Beginning at the Mount Luo Coal Mine, h

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