Rutch Reichl's Summer Food Reading List - a list by GourmetGlam

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A list of books, new and old, that every food lover should read this summer.

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The Last Chinese Chef

First to recommend

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Ruth Reichl says, "The most thorough explanation of Chinese food that I've ever read in the English language."

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

4 people recommended this item

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Bill Buford started out to do a profile of [celebrity chef] Mario Batali, and in the process he got obsessed with Italian cooking.... (via NPR)

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Down and Out in Paris and London

First to recommend

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Contains a remarkably graphic, and completely unforgettable, behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris

3 people recommended this item

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Most famous quote: "The primary requisite for writing about food is a good appetite." Probably our greatest food writer.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

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A real treat to read writer Laurie Colwin, and follw up with A Writer Returns to the Kitchen.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Up in the Old Hotel

First to recommend

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The ultimate writer's writer, Mitchell is not usually thought of as someone who focuses on food. But many of his stories are about markets, pubs and restaurants. And this book contains my all-time favorite food story, "All You Can Hold for Five Bucks."

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Talk Talk

First to recommend

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A novel about identity theft that contains some of the most wonderful descriptions of cooking that Ruth Reichl has ever read.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen

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There is a reason why Jacques Pepin became one of our most celebrated French chefs. He's a cook with a remarkably interesting mind.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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The Tummy Trilogy

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This could be subtitled: Why life is more fun for people who like to eat.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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The Man Who Ate Everything

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"Before there was Bill Buford there was Steingarten. Few people are as erudite and no one is as food-obsessed as Steingarten, who will follow any food trail to literal absurdity." Read this first, then the follow-up, It Must Have Been Something I Ate.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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