Essays & Narratives
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Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
$24.00 Add to cartA deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts
Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t
- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0063376504
- Language: English
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Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
$16.99 Add to cartWinner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in Writing
Finalist, 2019 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing Named a Best Food Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, BookRiot, and- Author: Lee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1579659004
- Language: English
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The Best American Food Writing 2019
$18.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink. “Good food writing evokes the senses,” writ- Series: Best American
- Author: Killingsworth, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 132866225X
- Language: English
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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
$34.99 Add to cartEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast hi
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353516
- Language: English
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On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites
$30.00 Read moreWith lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world.
As- Author: Kennedy, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836335
- Language: English
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Moveable Feasts: A Story of Paris in Twenty Meals
$29.95 Add to cartA rising-star food writer takes the reader on a gastronomic adventure around Paris to indulge in its irresistible melting-pot of cuisines.
Paris has a justifiable claim to be the center of European ga- Author: Newens, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100484
- Language: English
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Cheese Trekking: How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir
$29.95 Add to cartExploring the intersection between traditional and modern, this is a no-holds-barred guide to natural cheesemaking, dairying, and pastoralism–and one man’s global quest to make milk Sacred again.
In- Author: Warmedahl, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1645022986
- Language: English
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Food is My Religion
$29.91 Add to cart- Author: McKenna, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1637777663
- Language: English
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Spam: A Global History
$19.95 Add to cartA cultural history of the celebrated (and derided) canned protein.
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created- Series: Edible
- Author: Spring, Kelly A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390661
- Language: English
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Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day.
“Delight in food, in eating,- Author: Adler, Tamar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668078023
- Language: English
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Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes)
$24.95 Add to cartAn anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and food
Food has long played an important role in queer culture. Lesbian- and que
- Author: Ketchum, Alex D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1834050022
- Language: English
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Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet
$29.95 Add to cart*A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Selection*
“Scholarly, literate and deeply moving, this isn’t just a good read, it’s an essential reference for anyone hoping to understand the food system, why it’s br- Author: Gillespie, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369554
- Language: English
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
$27.00 Add to cartThe New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
“To read this sparely elegant, moving port… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 081297641X
- Language: English
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The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
$31.99 Add to cartOne August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson’s feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years prior. This discove
- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 132407924X
- Language: English
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the James Beard Award-winning chef, food justice activist, and bestselling author Bryant Terry.
The innovative and celebrated chef, f
- Author: Terry, Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063464683
- Language: English
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All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
$29.00 Add to cartHype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. Food dominates our every waking minute. In this dazzling cultural history, acclaimed food writer Ruby Tandoh traces the story of how–and why-… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217207862
- Language: English
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To Die for: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes
$26.00 Add to cartAn inspiring collection of recipes preserved on gravestones, with fascinating interviews from the families, celebrating the beloved food legacies of their dearly departed.
For so many, food is a touchi
- Author: Grant, Rosie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063424401
- Language: English
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Food to Die for: Recipes and Stories from America’s Most Legendary Haunted Places (a Spooky Paranormal Cookbook with Delightfully Creepy Meals, Eerie
$29.99 Add to cartDiscover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and K
- Author: Bruni, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1400245591
- Language: English
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Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War
$37.99 Add to cartAn enthralling, intimate collection of essays and over 75 recipes exploring the history of eight countries to understand the impact of geopolitical conflict and its outcomes on cuisine and food system… [more below]
- Author: Hassan, Hawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1984860976
- Language: English
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Omelette and a Glass of Wine
$16.95 Add to cartContains delightful explorations of food and cooking, among which are the collection’s namesake essay and many other gems; with black-and-white photographs and illustrations.
- Series: Cook’s Classic Library
- Author: David, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1599218607
- Language: English
