This is a good place for my first post on this forum, books about food are my great love. Hi everyone, and here goes: The Country Kitchen by Della Lutes. Lyrical writing about the kind of food that I love, home cooked food. I have a first edition, but I think it's been reprinted. Cross Creek, and Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. More beautiful evocative writing by a woman who loved to eat. ("The Yearling" has a lot of food in it as well.) The Man Who Ate Too Much and It Must Have Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten. Funny guy...good writer. The Art of Eating, MFK Fisher's omnibus. Oddly...I find myself more critical of her writing now. Just a personal thing, but she does not enchant me quite as much as she did on first/second reading. I'm not sure why. I still return to her, though. Food That Really Schmecks by the late, great, Canadian writer Edna Staebler. Wonderful recipes and stories of Mennonite cooking and life in Ontario. I like Anthony Bourdain's books. He's matured as a writer, and I get a huge kick out of his work. The Les Halles Cookbook....not so much. The Faber Book of Food. Excellent anthology of food writing. The Penguin Book of Food and Drink. Another excellent anthology. Delights and Prejudices and Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles. The first is James Beard's autobiography, the second is a collection of some of his correspondence with Helen Evans Brown. Both books are a delight. I have a large collection of 19th century cookbooks, and I find them wildly interesting to read. Lot's of history, and a fascinating window into the lives of women and their families. That's off the top of my head...to paraphrase Laurie Colwin...basically, all I ever do is read. Sherry
