By Laura B. Weiss
Here’s a way to get your food fix and still fit into your bikini. Instead of devouring food, devour books about it.
The just-released James Beard Foundation’s Fourteen Great Reads for Food Lovers is a list of memoirs, history, and fiction for food lovers to consume during the 14 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day. There’s oldies but goodies–like a title from M.F.K. Fisher–and new culinary writing standouts like the gripping account of the interface between food and war, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War, by Annia Ciezadlo.
The List:
- The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher (John Wiley & Sons)
- Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling (North Point Press)
- Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
- Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo (Free Press)
- A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (Picador)
- An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler (Scribner)
- The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee (Twelve)
- Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford (Vintage)
- Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin (Vintage)
- The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten (Vintage)
- Oranges by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark (Ecco Press)
- Simple Cooking by John Thorne (North Point Press)
- The Tummy Trilogy by Calvin Trillin (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)