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Books like Cooking and Eating

Loved Cooking and Eating by Rebecca Rissman? 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

    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Samin Nosrat · 2017 · Food & Drink

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

  2. 2

    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

    Kitchen Confidential

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000 · Food & Drink

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

  4. 4

    The Food Lab

    J. Kenji Lopez-Alt · 2015 · Food & Drink

    The science of why recipes work, tested obsessively; a doorstop reference for curious cooks.

  5. 5

    Cooked

    Michael Pollan · 2013 · Food & Drink

    "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

    John Coveney · 2013 · Food & Drink

    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

    Michael Moss · 2013 · Food & Drink

    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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    Dragons love tacos

    Adam Rubin · 2012 · Food & Drink

    Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.

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    The Middlesteins

    Jami Attenberg · 2012 · Food & Drink

    Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother's food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in

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    Bug food

    Charlotte Guillain · 2010 · Food & Drink

    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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