Biography & Autobiography - Culinary

Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef's memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it's the story of how one boy grew into a man...

WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD'Amazing, original, boundary breaking.' Diana Henry'One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023.' Stylist Magazine'His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal and flavour-led... dazzling and yet warmly inviting.' Nigella LawsonWith recipes for everything from Coconut Crab...

Most of us have been there: that horrible, God-awful date you just can't wait to get home and dish about with your friends, then eat a big bowl of ice cream while you soak in the tub watching some funny show streaming on your...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Melissa Ben-Ishay--the co-founder of Baked by Melissa and creator of the viral Green Goddess Salad--comes an irresistible, veggie-packed cookbook with over 100 flavorful, nourishing recipes to inspire you to eat delicious meals that make you feel great.When Melissa Ben-Ishay,...

A new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history--and at her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world "There is no greater authority on Jewish cooking than Joan Nathan." --Michael...

Adrift in Buenos Aires, Layne Mosler was hungry--for an excellent (and cheap) meal, for a great story, for a new direction. A chance recommendation from a taxi driver helped her find all these things, and sparked a quest that would take her to three...

This book is a chronological journey of the kitchens in Julie Kalt Gale's life. The book is a memoir of her life through the stories and recipes of the family and friends who raised her. The stories center on the delicious food prepared and...

Goodgrog: A Life in Wine and Journalism chronicles the life, and especially the career, of journalist John Schreiner, who may have had one of the most enviable jobs ever: wine writer. For over forty years, in newspaper and magazine articles and columns and through...

Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery--and a miracle. When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with...

A national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, Crystal Wilkinson cements herself as one of the most...

"Tom Weso describes his food culture upbringing in Wisconsin as a member of Menominee Nation and also a member of the Wisconsin citizenry. He lives in cabins, tepees, Madison hippie apartments, a refurbished jailhouse, and across the street from taverns. He hitchhikes across the...

SUCCESS LESSONS FROM A YOUTUBE STAR-CHEF WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERSHow does one move from growing up poor in Jamaica to becoming a celebrated and successful chef amassing more than 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube? In this inspirational memoir, Chef Ricardo shares his journey...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The debut memoir from the renowned author of Save Me the Plums, about the people who"steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world's leading food writers" (Chicago Sun-Times). "An absolute delight to read...

"A hilarious and moving story of unconventional entrepreneurialism, passion, and guts." --Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder of Shake Shack; Author of Setting the Table Original recipes by J. Kenji Lez-Alt of The Food Lab and Stella Parks of BraveTart James...

As seen on The Today Show with Kathy Lee and Hoda Charismatic media celebrities John and Tony Alberti, share their love of Italian food, culture, and people in their debut cookbook. Having grown up in a traditional Italian family, food has always been an...

An insightful and engaging insider's look at the history and business of the meat industry, from master butcher Pat LaFrieda "A full-throated celebration of red meat from one of the nation's major purveyors. . . . The true meat of his book is a...

One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.From his first apprenticeship in France to his Michelin-starred restaurant empire, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's cuisine is inspired by the freshest ingredients, the simplest techniques, and the drive to...

From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how...

Against the backdrop of immense cultural shift in the late-1960s, in the unique setting of Mendocino, California, here is a poignant telling of what it was like for a closeted gay kid working and living in a family-run French restaurant. Frequented by eccentric locals,...

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER - A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an "inspiring" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan...

When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was...

On the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...

Fishing for Chickens is a well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook. It offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia--the Smokies. Casada serves up a detailed description of the folkways of food as they existed...

"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!" --Valerie Bertinelli From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast,...

Stretch your budget and avoid food waste by remixing leftovers into family-favorite weeknight meals with the help of this smart guide to everyday cooking. Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer...

What is your most poignant memory surrounding food?Author: Zosia MametISBN-10: 1638087490ISBN-13: 9781638087496Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2023Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.20dLarge Print

A wine country odyssey. In 1976, the picturesque, agrarian Napa Valley was all but unknown to those who didn't live there. That changed dramatically when Steven Spurrier and Patricia Gallagher decided to host a blind tasting of American and French wines in Paris. When...

Why do most independent restaurants fail? Though they may have created beautiful menus and warm inviting atmospheres, but they simply failed to apply basic restaurant financial fundamentals! Learn how a dishwasher, turned restaurant manager, turned CFO, mastered the financial strategies that lead to a...

"Weird Foods of Portugal: Adventures of an Expat" is part travel adventure, part how-to, part cautionary tale, and ultimately affirmation for all who consider making such a move themselves."Author: Wendy Lee HermanceISBN-10: 1734604441ISBN-13: 9781734604443Publisher: Wendy HermanceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2022Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York establishments as Balthazar and Pastis. A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi, taking us from his gritty London childhood to his serendipitous...

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone...

From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how...

Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.In Licking the...

Explore the iconic and beloved restaurant Balthazar in this "beautiful New York love story. Nobody could have written it better than Reggie Nadelson, who captures the tastes and smells, the glamour, nitty-gritty, and the theater of the restaurant and of the city itself" (Nigella...

Celebrations and photographs, anecdotes, and recipes to bring families together around the dinner table...This wonderfully written memoir provides a lens into the world of a young girl as she grows into a woman in an Upper Middle Class Jewish family in 1940s' Toronto.Taking the...

The bestselling, "unvarnished" (The New York Times), "engrossing" (The Guardian), "gritty, well-researched" (The Economist)--and definitely unauthorized--biography of the celebrity chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain, based on extensive interviews with those who knew the real story.Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June 2018 shocked...

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND...

On the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...

Will the real 'Downton Abbey' please stand up? With the success of PBS' steamy series set in yesteryear England, interest has been garnered in the 'real' Downtown Abbey, Lady Almina. Join TilalWave comics as they explore the life and (often scandalous) times of Lady...

The book is about Dr. Andrew Batsis, a loving husband, a gentle dentist, a gentle caring Kiwanian, who resembled Santa Claus and his family, friends, patients, and acquaintances. He made a positive difference in the lives he touched and was considered a mentor for...

With over 25 years of catering experience in both New York and California, Sudi "Rick" Karatas shares the best and worst that the event and hospitality profession has to offer. Mostly the worst. His very funny stories include weddings (one with a runaway groom),...

An all around informational guide with amazing recipes for a successful vegan keto diet.Author: Rachel JonesISBN-10: 8693148443ISBN-13: 9798693148444Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2020Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.36d

When Kaumudi Marath moved to the US from India, she never thought she'd be a famous chef, food writer and unofficial spokesperson for Indian cuisine abroad. Shared Tables is her memoir of an unlikely career enriched and shaped by family history, stories, memorable meals...

Gideon Hirtenstein began his professional career 50 years ago and is a 1969 graduate of the European Train Culinary School. He has been an Executive Chef since 1974, serving as the Executive Chef for four- and five-star luxury hotels in over 47 countries throughout...

Behind the scenes tales of San Francisco's legendary Iron Horse restaurant, as told from the horse's mouth. "From the Horse's Mouth" is a slice-of-life peek into a bygone era when the martini was the drink of the day and hats and white gloves where...

Having good people is the wildcard of running a successful restaurant. In What Seems to Be the Problem?, Toby Tullis tells it like it is as few have ever dared. Toby captures the humor and insanity behind the scenes in the restaurant business. One...

A memoir in cuts that illustrates for readers and foodies alike how they can improve the meat industry by participating in it. America is in the midst of a meat zeitgeist. Butchers have emerged as the rock stars of the culinary world, and cozy...

As we traveled and worked in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, food was not the story. Well, sometimes it was, as when the Negritos shared their charcoal roasted bat meat in the rainforest. Meals happened. Meals permeated the scene, and went unreported,...