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Books like Bread and jam for Frances
Loved Bread and jam for Frances by Russell Hoban? 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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Kitchen Confidential
The wild, profane underbelly of professional kitchens; a memoir that made a chef a household name.
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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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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Cook better by mastering four elements rather than memorising recipes; a modern teaching classic.
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The Passover Plot
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
The book that taught a generation to cook French food at home; meticulous and beloved.
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Eat not this flesh
Examines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of mainta
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Food in history
Surveys the evolution of man's diverse gastronomic habits, customs, and traditions against their cultural and historical background.
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The Art of Eating
Elegant, sensuous essays on food and appetite; the foundation of modern food writing.
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American wildlife & plants
"'Prepared under the direction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland.'"
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Fat is a feminist issue
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