Reading memoirs and chronicles that center around food is something I love, but haven't really done lately. Last books I read on the subject were "Climbing the Mango Tree" by Madhur Jaffrey and Elizabeth David's "My Life in France". I much preferred the first - I like my books, if not my food, on the exotic side.
Then I read the second part of Ruth Reichl's autobiography: "Comfort me with apples" which honestly wasn't that good, especially compared with her first "Tender at the Bone", and sort of let the food thing slide for a while.
But no more! I found these three books which I feel certain will provide hours of food craving:
Staling Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir - Bich Minh Nguyen
Bento Box in the Heartland - My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America - Linda Furiya
Serve the People: A Stir-fried Journey through China - Jen Lin-Liu
Although, in the spirit of thrift I should probably get to these two - which I got on may last food book binge and still haven't read:
The Passionate Epicure - Marcel Rouff
Endless Feasts: sixty years of writing from Gourmet
Then I read the second part of Ruth Reichl's autobiography: "Comfort me with apples" which honestly wasn't that good, especially compared with her first "Tender at the Bone", and sort of let the food thing slide for a while.
But no more! I found these three books which I feel certain will provide hours of food craving:
Staling Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir - Bich Minh Nguyen
Bento Box in the Heartland - My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America - Linda Furiya
Serve the People: A Stir-fried Journey through China - Jen Lin-Liu
Although, in the spirit of thrift I should probably get to these two - which I got on may last food book binge and still haven't read:
The Passionate Epicure - Marcel Rouff
Endless Feasts: sixty years of writing from Gourmet
My absolute favourites in this collection, you ask? Why, here they are:
Clémentine in the Kitchen - Samuel Chamberlain
Katish - Our Russian Cook - Wanda Frolov
