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Who can resist the combination of fascinating personalities and delicious food? Cooking memoirs make for satisfying reads - and are also great in audio as well!
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from my Momma's Table
by Rick Bragg
The best-selling author presents a rollicking food memoir, cookbook and tribute to his mother and the vanishing pre-Civil War Deep South, sharing classic family recipes and preparation secrets for such traditional fare as short ribs, biscuits and perfect mashed potatoes. Also great in audiobook.
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Blood, Bones, & Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton
The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant.
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A Chef's Tale: A Memoir of Food, France, and America
by Pierre Franey
The embodiment of the art and pleasure of French cookery, Pierre Franey (1921-96) was one of the most influential and beloved of America's culinary figures.With style, charm, and affection for his native France and adopted America, Franey takes us into his life in the world of food, interweaving his story with irresistible recipes and, here and there, impulsively giving away a chef's secrets.
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
by Ruth Reichl
One installment in a series of memoirs that recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into how her dining experiences changed according to her character and whether or not she was recognized.
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Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Recounts how the author escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career and lackluster Queens apartment by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a year-long endeavor of humor and accomplishment that transformed her life.
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
by Anthony Bourdain
Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
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My Life in France
by Julia Child
A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef."
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
by Kwame Onwuachi
The Top Chef star and "30 Under 30" Forbes honoree traces his culinary coming-of-age in both the Bronx and Nigeria, discussing his eclectic training in acclaimed restaurants while sharing insights into the racial barriers that have challenged his career. Illustrations
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Yes, Chef : a Memoir
by Marcus Samuelsson
The Top Chef: Masters winner and James Beard Award-winning proprietor of Harlem's Red Rooster traces his Ethiopian birth, upbringing by an adoptive family in Sweden and rise to a famous New York chef, sharing personal insights into his challenges as a black man in a deeply prejudiced industry.
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