Essays & Narratives

Report copyright infringementby Patrick O'Connell (Author)"It is amazing to read the story of how he came to be the chef he is―a pioneer for the...

Report copyright infringementby Krys Malcolm Belc (Author)From the author of The Natural Mother of the Child, an exquisite memoir about an amateur home cook's hard...

Report copyright infringementby Josh C. Epstein (Author), Gina Mazza (Editor), Veronica L. Chordas (Cover Design by)Food is the excuse. Connection is the point.In a world...

Report copyright infringementby Patricia Volk (Author)Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you're never just...

Report copyright infringementby Steve Lerach (Author)From the finest restaurants of Paris to the Kashmiri Dining Room at the Ambassador Motor Hotel in St. Louis Park,...

Report copyright infringementby Carla Lalli (Author)An intimate, story-driven cookbook that explores the idea of cooking and eating as an act of self-care, with 65 time-tested...

Report copyright infringementby John Anthony (Author)Sundays are for Sauce is an Italian-American home cook's reflection on a time when food was more than something placed...

Report copyright infringementby Lydia Pang (Author)One of the Must-Read Books To Have On Your Radar in 2026--Service95From a dazzling new writer, a stirring memoir rooted...

Report copyright infringementby Candace Walsh (Author)Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she...

Report copyright infringementby Aundra Lafayette (Author)Aundra Lafayette, lovingly known throughout Nashville as The Soup Lady, has spent a lifetime stirring warmth, comfort, and soul into...

Report copyright infringementby Barbara Bensoussan (Author)What happens when the nice Jewish boy you end up marrying comes not from New York but from Casablanca? Who...

Report copyright infringementby Virginia Shaffer (Author)Part culinary adventure, part personal awakening--one woman's growing oyster obsession leads her into a coastal subculture that few outsiders ever...

Report copyright infringementby L. R. Heartsong (Author)"I've been reading your archives... reading and rereading everything I could find. You are an amazing creature. Bravissimo..." -...

Report copyright infringementby Bee Wilson (Author)One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson's feet: the same...

Report copyright infringementby Bonny Reichert (Author)An "absolutely transformative" (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family--sustenance and survival--from a chef, award-winning journalist, and...

Report copyright infringementby Katie Sherrod (Editor)Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women (TCU Press, 2007) was a collection of profiles about women who moved...

Report copyright infringementby Brigid Washington (Author)High pressure. Hot kitchens. A memoir of ambition, belonging, and coming-of-age in America's premiere culinary school. "Her fast-moving coming-of-age memoir...

Report copyright infringementby Larry Levine (Author)They were singers and secretaries, classmates and teachers, actresses and attorneys, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, friends, lovers, and mentors. They were...

Report copyright infringementby Tamar Adler (Author)From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just...

Report copyright infringementby Aundra Lafayette (Author)Aundra Lafayette, lovingly known throughout Nashville as The Soup Lady, has spent a lifetime stirring warmth, comfort, and soul into...

Report copyright infringementby Betty Fussell (Author)A New York Times Editors' Choice Soigné! A recipe for survival. A juicy, sexy, and wise memoir from the "gifted...

Report copyright infringementby Nigel Slater (Author)Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers...

Report copyright infringementby Michael Gebert (Author)"[A] must-read for Chicago's foodies."-- Publishers WeeklyThe untold stories behind Chicago's globally celebrated culinary scene--from revolutionary chefs to kitchen disasters...

Report copyright infringementby Eduardo Machado (Author), Michael Domitrovich (Author)Born into a well-to-do family in Cuba in 1953, Eduardo Machado saw firsthand the effects of the...

Report copyright infringementby Giulia Melucci (Author)From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes...

Report copyright infringementby Judith Newton (Author)Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped her life, Tasting Home is the history of Judith Newton's emotional...

Report copyright infringementby Marc Malnati (Author)After a tumultuous beginning, the Malnati family turned a small business headed for bankruptcy into the pizzerias that became Chicagoland's...

Report copyright infringementby Betty Fussell (Author)Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir...