Books about food-related things.

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A catch-all thread!

S/D, RFI, POX, whatevs.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Invention of the Restaurant -- anyone read it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

S: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Salt: A World History, and The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, all by Mark Kurlansky.

Anything by Harold McGee

― Vacillatrix (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to read that damn Salt book already. I never find it cheap at Powells (or anywhere).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I liked John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure, about the sociopathic serial-killing gourmand. Also, Anthony Burgess' Tremor of Intent, a pastiche of James Bond-type spy novels, has the hero in an eating contest with the Goldfinger/Blofeld style villain.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

the new Giorgio Locatelli book is the best cook book I possess. actually.... equal best with nose to tail eating

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Elizabeth David's French Provincial cooking is probably the one I go back to most. And Leith's Cookery Bible, if I ever need to know anything, I ask Prue.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I've got Animal, Vegetable, Miracle on my library request list. Sounds like the right mix of ethos and science and cooking for me. I started a buying club for ethically raised grass-fed and pasture-finished meat at work last week and found 6 or 7 other people to talk about food with. And the farmers' markets are all gearing up. Happy times.

― Jaq, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

I just bought BBC Good Food which I mainly bought because there was a booklet with kid food recipes. I am happy with the mag itself cause it has a great salmon/avocado/cucumber recipe as well as a recipe for grilled food. I never tried the latter. Do I really need a grill tin (?) or can I use something else?

― nathalie, Monday, 18 June 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

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