Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598847062)

An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking.

Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food--a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food expos駸.

Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

Author: Melissa Stoeger
ISBN-10: 1598847066
ISBN-13: 9781598847062
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2013
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 103
Booklist 07/01/2013 pg. 10