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Food Writing Across Cultures

Let's talk food! Food writing is a popular genre that includes essays, memoirs, and travelogues about food. Recipes may be included, but are not the focus as they are in cookbooks. Cross cultures as you explore these great books about food.

Halifax Public Libraries

26 items

  • BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 394.120951 D922i
  • Tawâw

    Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

    Chartrand, Shane
    BookToronto : Ambrosia, 2019. — 641.59297 C486t
  • Taste

    My Life Through Food

    Tucci, Stanley
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2021. — 791.43028 T886t
  • Bite by Bite

    Nourishments & Jamborees

    Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
    Book[New York] : Ecco, 2024. — 814.6 N575b
  • Kitchen Confidential

    Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Bourdain, Anthony
    BookLondon : Bloomsbury, 2013, c2000. — 641.5092 B768k 2013
  • BookNew York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024. — 641.5092 G244b
  • Gastro Obscura

    a Food Adventurer's Guide

    BookNew York : Workman Publishing, 2021. — 641.013 G257
  • BookNew York : Random House, 2019. — 641.5092 R351s
  • Chop Suey Nation

    the Legion Cafe and Other Stories From Canada's Chinese Restaurants

    Xu, Anhua
    BookMadeira Park, B.C. : Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2019. — 647.9571 X8c
  • The Cooking Gene

    a Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

    Twitty, Michael W., 1977-
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2017. — 641.59296 T974c
  • Dirt

    Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

    Buford, Bill
    BookNew York : Appetite, 2020. — 641.5092 B929d
  • Kitchen Yarns

    Notes on Life, Love, and Food

    Hood, Ann, 1956-
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 641.5092 H776k
  • Taste Makers

    Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

    Sen, Mayukh
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 641.3002 S474t
  • BookNew York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2020. — 641.5092 C456e
  • Lidia

    a Life of Love, Family, and Food

    Bastianich, Lidia
    BookToronto, Ont. : Appetite, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada, 2018. — 641.5092 B3262L
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — 781.66092 Z39c
  • Nourished

    a Memoir of Food, Faith, & Enduring Love (with Recipes)

    Huber, Lia
    BookNew York : Convergent, 2017. — 641.5092 H877n
  • Salt Beef Buckets

    a Love Story : Recipes and Essays Exploring the Stories and Culinary Traditions of Newfoundland

    Bulman, Amanda Dorothy Jean
    BookSt. John's, N.L. : Breakwater, 2021. — 641.59718 B938s
  • Undercooked

    How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

    Ahdoot, Dan
    BookNew York : Crown, 2023. — 641.013 A285u