Some wonderful books - recipes, gastronomy, memoir, fiction, travel, philosophy, science and poetry - that have fed my imagination and nurtured my interest in all things food and life related.
Allende, Isabel, Aphrodite, Flamingo 1998
Barnes, Julian, The Pedant in the Kitchen, Atlantic Books, London 2012
Beeton Mrs, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, Ward Lock & Co 1912
Blanchard-Thomasset, Claire, Á l’étouffée, Editions L'iroli 2009
Brillat Savarin, Jean-Anthelme, The Physiology of Taste, Everyman's Library 2009
Colón, Suzan, Cherries in Winter, Random House 2010
Crace, Jim, The Devil's Larder, Viking 2001
Dahl, Sophie, Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, Harper Collins 2009
Fisher, MFK, The Art of Eating, 50th Anniversary Edition, Wiley 2004
Fisher, MFK, With Bold Knife and Fork, Counterpoint (no date, originally published 1969)
George, Don, ed., A Moveable Feast - Life Changing Food Adventures Around the World, Lonely Planet 2010
Gordon, Mary, Home, Sterling Publishing 2011
Hesser Amanda, ed., Eat, Memory - Great Writers at the Table, Norton 2009
Hopkinson, Simon, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, Hyperion 2006
Howells, Sheila, Favourite Welsh Recipes, Salmon Publishing (no date)
Hughes, Holly, ed., Best Food Writing 2010, Da Capo 2010
Jacob, Dianne, Will Write for Food, Da Capo 2010
Kolpen, Jana, The Secrets of Pistoulet, Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1996
Krawiec, Richard, ed., the sound of poets cooking, Jacar Press 2010
Lebovitz, David, The Sweet Life in Paris, Broadway Books 2009
McLagan Jennifer, Fat, An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes, Ten Speed Press 2008
Maisto, Michell, The Gastronomy of Marriage, Random House 2009
Marranca, Bonnie, A Slice of Life - Contemporary Writers on Food, Overlook Duckworth 2005
Parker Bowles, Tom, Full English, A Journey Through the British and their Food, Ebury Press 2009
Pollan, Michael, Food Rules, Penguin Books 2010
Ramsden, James, Small Adventures in Cooking, Quadrille Publishing 2011
Rosenblum, Mort, Olives, The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit, Absolute Press 1996
Ruhlman, Michael, The Elements of Cooking, Scribner 2010
Segnit, Niki, The Flavour Thesaurus, Bloomsbury 2010
Slater, Nigel, Toast, The Story of a Boy's Hunger, Fourth Estate 2003
Standage, Tom, An Edible History of Humanity, Atlantic Books 2009
Trillin, Calvin, The Tummy Trilogy, The Noonday Press 1994
Various, In My Mother's Kitchen - Writers on Love, Cooking and Family, Chamberlain Bros 2006
Wizenberg, Molly, A Homemade Life, Simon & Schuster 2009
Wrangham, Richard, Catching Fire, How Cooking Made Us Human, Profile Books 2010
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And below you'll find some links to creative bloggers and websites that are well worth following:
Angela Hirst's The Good Soup
A Thinking Stomach
Anita Breland
David Lebovitz
David Leite
Eat Live Travel Write
Food Loves Writing
James Ramsden
John Thorne
Karin Dodson Gignoux's Pour le Goût
Life's a Feast
Liv Life
Michael Ruhlman
Michael Toa
Molly Wizenberg's Orangette
Monica Bhide
Philip Dundas' Pip's Dish
Rosie Lovell
Ruth Reichl
Smitten Kitchen
Suzan Colón
Tea and Cookies
The English Kitchen
The Splendid Table
The Stone Soup
Traveler's Lunch Box
Vanilla Garlic
What Katie Ate
