What's your favorite book about food?

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amanda_pennsylvania

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I was talking with some folks tonight about the spirituality of food. I started thinking about all the books that have been written about food, did a search on Amazon, and was blown away by all the ink that's been spilled on the subject. Books on why we eat, on what we should eat, books on spices, on corn, on ethical eating, on fasting, on being a farmer. It's amazing.

So which books have you all enjoyed?

 
Maya Angelou's "Hallelujah, The Welcome Table." A cookbook with great stories.

 
Marcia Adams' Cooking from Quilt Country. Beautiful pics and stories about Amish/Mennonite life.

 
MFK Fisher, Calvin Trillin...Gourmet did an anthology insert of food articles. No photos, no

ads....just a small 5x7" thin paper insert full of beautiful words about food: growing it, preparing it, enjoying it. But some were more serious topics: famine and how food is being manipulated. Authors were from around the world.

I found it loose on a table at the library and sat there and read it from beginning to end. Made me realize why I had originally fallen in love with Gourmet magazine....and why I have since fallen out of love with it.

 
Almost forgot:: Like Water for Chocolate. The novel is written in the form of a cookbook.

 
Not so much a food book as a cookbook book is Stand Facing the Stove,

about Irma Rombauer and the history of the Joy of Cooking. Incredibly interesting, and very well written.

 
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