Topic
Food Writing
4 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
4 posts
Where to Start with Anthony Bourdain: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anthony Bourdain — whether to begin with Kitchen Confidential or Medium Raw. A complete reading guide to the chef, author, and traveller.
Where to Start with Bill Buford: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bill Buford — how to approach Heat, his account of leaving the New Yorker to apprentice in Mario Batali's kitchen and then tracing Italian cuisine to its origins in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Food: Essential Reading List
The best books about food — from Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore's Dilemma to Salt Fat Acid Heat and In Defense of Food. Food writing at its most essential.
Books Like A Year in Provence: Expat Life, Food, and Life Abroad
Peter Mayle's account of buying a farmhouse in the Luberon and spending a year navigating Provençal life invented a genre. These books share its warmth, its pleasure in food and place, and its comedy of cultural collision — the outsider who falls in love with somewhere they were never supposed to belong.
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