What are your food-related reads these days?

[Anna N]

The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten and Born Round, Frank Bruni. And I have just finished Best Food Writing 2010, 2016, 2017.  Also finished Kim Severson’s Spoon Fed. 
 

 

[ElsieD]

I read The Man Who Ate Everything  a number of years ago.  I really enjoyed it.

[teonzo]

5 hours ago, Anna N said:

Born Round, Frank Bruni. And I have just finished Best Food Writing 2010, 2016, 2017.

 

Can you write some comments about these, please?

 

 

 

Teo

 

[Anna N]

26 minutes ago, teonzo said:

 

Can you write some comments about these, please?

 

 

 

Teo

 

I will see what I can do over the next few days. 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

On 7/12/2018 at 1:53 PM, JoNorvelleWalker said:

IThe people of Austria-Hungary ate it with enthusiasm, and not because it was good, but because it was there.

 

 

The story of so much classic food.  

[heidih]

I beg to differ but won't belabour - they still eat it - my people. You speak from personal experience?l It is in their freakin fridge now. 

[TdeV]

I was extremely interested to read Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted ©2016 which discusses protected names and the countries which do and don't enforce those designations.

 

Eye opening one might say.

[Darienne]

2 hours ago, TdeV said:

I was extremely interested to read Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted ©2016 which discusses protected names and the countries which do and don't enforce those designations.

 

Eye opening one might say.

Placed a hold on it at the local city library immediately.

 

[TdeV]

Make sure you come back and tell us what you think of the book, @Darienne. 🙃

[blue_dolphin]

I treated myself to a copy of Tamar Adler’s Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day (eG-friendly Amazon.com link). 
It's a small book, with an entry for each day of the year.  Some are a paragraph, some just a few words, others a full page or a bit longer. A couple of recipes or cooking descriptions that suffice for one appear but it’s not at all a cookbook.

Most of the reviews I’ve read are quite positive. This reviewer (Review: Feast on this) is less so, writing, “Adler’s yearlong food-themed meditation practice felt like an exhaustive stream of consciousness.” 
 

I don’t doubt that might be the case if one were to read through in one go, but I’ve enjoyed Adler’s writing in An Everlasting Meal (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) and The Everlasting Meal Cookbook (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) so I expect to enjoy dipping into this one over the course of the year. 

[Alex]

14 hours ago, Darienne said:

Placed a hold on it at the local city library immediately.

 

 

Ditto

[Dr. Teeth]

I speak for myself and hopefully the dear departed Anna N, who had a quote from John Thorne in her signature for years:   If you haven’t read everything Thorne wrote, with the possible exception of his book on home plumbing, you have cheated yourself.

[Darienne]

I'm reading Real Food, Fake Food by Larry Olmsted.  But seeing as I'm also reading three other books, I haven't gotten all that far.  One of the other books is Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life which I am really enjoying.

  

[TdeV]

On 12/12/2025 at 6:27 PM, Dr. Teeth said:

I speak for myself and hopefully the dear departed Anna N, who had a quote from John Thorne in her signature for years:   If you haven’t read everything Thorne wrote, with the possible exception of his book on home plumbing, you have cheated yourself.

 

Dr. Teeth, do you have any favourites of John Thorne's books?

 

 

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[Darienne]

Real Food, Fake Food by Larry Olmsted is an excellent book, well researched and documented and I do recommend it.  

 

Not a book to read straight through for me.  I read the more broadly based chapters and those which touched upon our own situation vis-a-vis what we eat, skimmed through a couple of others and ignored a few.  Truthfully it didn't engage me as much as did all those books about chocolate which I have read.   

[Dr. Teeth]

On 12/18/2025 at 9:55 AM, TdeV said:

 

Dr. Teeth, do you have any favourites of John Thorne's books?

 

 

 Serious Pig, followed closely by Outlaw Cook.