Inspired by a post on the Washington Times' food-related blog, I started thinking about my summer reading. Granted, these days, most of the reading I do is off the screen on my laptop, but there are occasions when I want to grab physical reading material and sit outside (in the shade of an umbrella with a glass of Prosecco, of course). Nicole has done a great job of covering a cookbook a day, which are great for leisurely flipping, but sometimes I want to read actual sentences that make up a story.
The blog author Kim O'Donnell's food-related book recommendations are Gael Greene's Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess, Steve Almond's Candy Freak, Jane and Michael Stern's Two for the Road, and the 98-page supplement to the August issue of Gourmet magazine.
Here are my picks for food-related books that you might want to toss into your beach tote. Not all of them are necessarily new, and some I've read, others I am hoping to:
- I am caught between the sheets, smack dab in the sultry, sexy middle of Insatiable myself, and I am loving it. I highly recommend this book to everyone, but just be warned that Gael's memoirs reflect a very active social life, and by "social," I don't mean "going to her weekly book club meeting."
- Tony Bourdain's The Nasty Bits, along with anything else my idol has written
- Julia Child and grandnephew Alex Prud-Homme's My Life in France
- Bill Buford's Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Ruth Reichl's Garlic and Sapphires
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- I am working my way through On Food & Cooking by Harold McGee. It's not what I'd call "light summer reading," but it's great to have as a reference for later. Personally, I don't mid reading though a few pages every night, as if I were studying.
- This one's for you. What food-related books are you reading and would recommend to fellow Slashfoodies?
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