Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Top Ten Yummy Foods Mentioned In Books

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This topic is right up my (Lori) alley! I love food. I love reading about food. I love making food. I love eating food. I'm surprised I'm not 84,000 lbs.


1.  Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan--This book is basically what it seems on its face: a comedian rhapsodizing on food. Yes, I think the American diet is horrible, but you can't deny that most Americans love their food. :)

2.  Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James Salter and Kay Salter--The book is divided into 365 short entries, one for each day of the calendar year. Each entry has a note about entertaining or recipes or a variety of food related topics that helped make me a better cook and hostess.


3.  An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler--Filled with essays on food, this book forever changed the way I make scrambled eggs and boil pasta.

4.  Heartburn by Nora Ephron--Ths novel describes the end of Ephron's marriage to Carl Bernstein. It also contains a few recipes by Ephron, a known foodie.


5.  Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living by Julie Powell--I loved this book! I love how Powell used cooking to change her life and pull herself out of a major rut. It's one I think of whenever I get a little blah about my life.

6.  Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook--This cookbook has so much yes. Full of amazing southern style recipes, it added a fantastic tweak to my already near-perfect fried chicken recipe and gave me my chili recipe (which has needed very few tweaks over the years). Highly recommend.


7.  100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know: Engagement Chicken and 99 Other Fabulous Dishes to Get You Everything You Want in Life--This is my go-to cookbook whenever I know someone getting their first apartment. It has everything. Yes, the recipe titles might be a little strange or creepy (Let's Make a Baby Pasta? Seriously? But it is damn good pasta, with a nice kick of spice!). It's very budget-friendly and has so many recipes that I always recommend it.

8.  Made in Italy by Giorgio Locatelli--I first heard of this cookbook in one of those celebrity reading lists. It's a huge book, with a pretty good-sized price tag, which kept me from purchasing it for quite a while. I finally found a good used copy. :) It is full of food porn and for that I love it.


9.  Audrey at Home: A Kitchen Table Biography by Luca Dotti--What a wonderful idea for a biography! Hepburn's son compiled photographs, details, and recipes that say so much about the beloved actress and humanitarian. I love the idea of using someone's favorite foods to tell their story! If anyone ever writes a biography about me, this is how I want it to be done!

10.  To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion by Phillip Greene--A book of alcoholic recipes related to the novels and stories of one of my favorite authors? Yes, please!


Honorable Mentions:
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker--I haven't read it yet, but it sounds fun.
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford--I love Italian food. Probably more than I should. This sounded like a good read.
Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble--I've started and stopped this one a few times. Sometimes it delves a bit more into the science than I am really interested in knowing, but I love the idea of using my dollars to make a statement.

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31 comments:

  1. #7 looks like a lot of fun!
    My list: http://amandanicolle.blogspot.com/2017/10/take-ten-yummy-foodsrestaurants.html

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  2. I'm unfamiliar with all of these, but YAY for a Julie and Julia cookbook feature. :)

    - Rissi @ Finding Wonderland
    Top Ten Tuesday October 17

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  3. I loved the movie about Julie & Julia - does that count?
    http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/my-top-ten-foodie-books.html

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    1. PS the linky doesnt appear to be working atm :-)

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    2. Sorry! Technical glitch! Just fixed it. :)

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  4. I love the sound of the Audrey Hepburn one!

    Mine: https://booksformuse.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/ten-foodie-romances/

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  5. I love ur list!
    Mine: https://bookishowlette.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/top-ten-books-yummy-foods/

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  6. I seem to be a rarity in not being into foodie books, but I did manage to scrape together a list of ten books that make me hungry!

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  7. Great list! Like Jessica, I am not a big foodie book person, and so I went with books on my bookshelves that have a food item in the title.

    http://www.literaryfeline.com/2017/10/tuesday-favorites-favorite-book-i-want.html

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  8. This list makes me think I need to pick up more food oriented books. My TTT: https://akernelofnonsense.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/top-ten-tuesday-fierce-females-id-share-a-meal-with/

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  9. I just realized that my list took a bit of a twisted turn.
    Mine is sooo gory!!! LOL!

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  10. I decided to do something a little different this week and I hope you like it! https://howlinglibraries.com/2017/10/17/t10t-101717/

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  11. I love trying new/pintrest inspired foods. I HATE cooking!

    http://www.readingbifrost.com/top-ten-tuesday-cookbooks-for-geeks/

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  12. Here is my list of books that make me hungry! https://chrissireads.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/top-ten-book-covers-that-make-me-hungry/

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  13. Why did I not think about using cookbooks? I'll definitely have to check out some of the books from your list. - Katie

    Here's my list --> http://justanothergirlandherbooks.blogspot.de/2017/10/top-ten-tuesday-yummy-foods-in-books.html

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  14. These all sound so fun and original!

    My list:
    http://www.lindseyh.be/2017/10/17/top-ten-delicious-food-mentioned-in-books-top-ten-tuesday/

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  15. Should have thought of doing food memoirs and cookbooks! Mine was focused on children's books (mostly): https://ghostgrrrl.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/5-yummy-food-and-drink-from-books/

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  16. Since I try to link books I read to food / dishes / munches, I had some fun with this one!

    https://booksandmunches.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/ttt-17102017/

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  17. Hahahahaha it never occurred to me to use cookbooks... clearly I totally over thought this. :D Posting in the comments, cause it says the linky won't open until 11pm. :)

    http://www.curmudgeoninflannel.com/top-10-yummy-foods-mentioned-books/

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  18. I have a deep need for that An Everlasting Meal book. It sounds right up my ally.

    www.onemorestamp.com/blog/top-ten-tuesday-food-in-books-that-i-want-to-eat-right-now

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  19. Great list! Here's my blog post!
    http://milkywayofbooks.blogspot.gr/2017/10/top-10-tuesday-ten-yummy-books-or-books.html

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  20. Yay for FOOD BOOKS! My list is Meal Planning 101 (AKA Yummy Foods in Books) https://thegreenmockingbird.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/top-ten-tuesday-meal-planning-101-aka-yummy-foods-in-books/

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  21. The link-up list isn't working for me, so I will just share my list of books for foodies here!

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  22. I love food in books!! http://book-scents.com/2017/10/17/ttt-top-ten-yummy-foods-in-book/

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  23. Ooh nice! I struggled with this one for some reason! Basically turned it into foods I like that characters end up eating! :P

    Here's my Tuesday Post

    Have a GREAT day!

    Old Follower :)

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  24. This is a great list! I especially like the 100 list. I must look for it.

    https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2017/10/baking-bread-fiction-nonfiction-and.html

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  25. Ha, I JUST finished listening to Food: A Love Story! Very funny.

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  26. And now I am too hungry to accomplish anything else today! Oh well...

    Thanks for the fun list, and for hosting!

    Marissa

    Reading List

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  27. I laughed at the cover of that first one. I love food and would totally put a hotdog on my wedding cake . . .

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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  28. I went with fiction only! I loved Julie & Julia too! I love foodie books so I had too many choices. Ficton this time.

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  29. The 100 RECIPES one sounds really useful, especially for new cooks. I'll have to check it out :)

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