squeeeb

i'm currently reading Heat by bill buford. it's pretty good, i'm enjoying it. i've read a cooks tour and kitchen confidential by bourdain, and i've read the united states of arugala by whoever wrote it. oh, and i've read julie and julia, which i really enjoyed. those are the books i've read that were good enough to remember.

i am thinking of reading the soul of a chef by ruhlman.

have you read any non-cookbook books about food, cooking, cheffing, whatever, that you really really enjoyed?

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LordEden

I was a fan of Marco Pierre White's Autobiography "Devil in the Kitchen".

Heat was one of my favorite books, it's a great read.

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"In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labour. In this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst is only a sour look or two at choking? No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto." - Bartholomew Roberts

Charlatan

Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichel's memoirs of growing up. It's a pretty cool coming of age story.

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“Under a separation of state and economics, especially with laissez-faire capitalism [Free Trade], the state no longer has a role to play in protecting the people and assuring their happiness. Laissez-faire means capitalism is outside the regulatory control of the state and that the people are entirely at the mercy of the capitalists.”
– Thomas Jefferson

snowy

Pretty much anything by MFK Fisher. She makes me hungry.

And The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten.

I love food writing. I read a lot of it. I'll have to pick up Ruth Reichl's book--I like her a lot.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau