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Books like Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Loved Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat? 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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Fromage a Trois
On the brink of 30, in a haze of heartbreak, Ella makes the only decision that seems rational: she buys a one-way ticket to Paris, embarking on a pilgrimage of cheese and wine. Her escape from a faile
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The Food Lab
The science of why recipes work, tested obsessively; a doorstop reference for curious cooks.
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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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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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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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The Middlesteins
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