If you liked
Books like Eat Up, Gemma
Loved Eat Up, Gemma by Sarah Hayes? 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
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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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Much Depends on Dinner
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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Good to eat
Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, bestselling author Marvin Harr
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The foolish tortoise
A tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters.
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The psychology of eating and drinking
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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The rituals of dinner
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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Jiu guo
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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Lunch
A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch comprised of colorful foods.