I’ve been doing my best to read as much about food, wine, dining and cooking as I can. Last week, when I got the James Beard Foundation newsletter in the mail, I was really excited to see, in the front, a list titled “Best Books for the Fourteen Weeks of Summer.”
Since I just returned from China, I decided to start with The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. I included the full list of books below. My library card is going to be working hard until this Fall.
Have you read any of the books on the list? What was your favorite?
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)
