My Life in France119 reviews Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme Anchor, 2007 A DELICIOUS MEMOIR + Julia Child in Love + Flavor of France + Charming and Impressionistic             Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table110 reviews Ruth Reichl Broadway, 1999 Warning - lot's of gushing to follow + Warm and Engaging + Delicious to read + !!             The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food52 reviews Jennifer 8 Lee Twelve, 2008 Delightful Look at "Authentic" Food Culture + An Interesting And Educational Read + Triple 8 all the way... + An insightful and fun read             Consider the Oyster5 reviews M. F. K. Fisher North Point Press, 1988 Simply Beautiful + Fisher's Way with Words Reminded Me to Savor Food -and to Eat Oysters! + Words are like musical notes + Surprisingly Amusing + Consider it a classic             Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)574 reviews Anthony Bourdain Harper Perennial, 2007 Brings Back Memories + Oh the Memories! + A great read! It has been over 20 years since I worked in the restaurant business, but reading Bourdain's book brought back a lot of memories of what the business and the many characters who inhabit it are like. I found Bourdain's book to be very entertaining and reflects much of what I remember about the world ...             The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family18 reviews Laura Schenone W. W. Norton, 2007 loved it! + excellently expounded, a search for recipes and roots + Loved it all the way till the end + odd but wonderful + Wonderful book!             An Embarassment of Mangoes2 reviews Ann Vanderhoof Bantam Books, 2005 living the dream + Reckless Abandon If you have ever spent a snowy morning staring at the white sand beach and palm trees on your calendar, this is the kind of book you are looking for. The writing allows you to go along on the adventure of sailing the Caribbean for a year.             A Year in Provence132 reviews Peter Mayle Vintage, 1991 Part Travelogue; Part Love Letter + A Year of Surprises + Absolutely Delightful & Entertaining + Très délicieux             The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals464 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch + Amazing Read + Thought-provoking and terrifying + Changed My World View             Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting ...161 reviews Bill Buford Vintage, 2007 Great read - even for non-cooksI + A amazing journey through food and cooking + You Need to Love the Kitchen + Outsider Looking In + banjo             The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine42 reviews Benjamin Wallace Crown, 2008 Interesting peek inside the world of rare wines + Wine Sleuthing + A Page Turner This book provides a great look inside the very high end of wine collecting - the people, the history and of course the wines. The author offers up a fascinating portrait of the people whose trade or avocation is the finding, selling and drinking of 100+ year old fine wines; and in the process it ...             Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously63 reviews Julie Powell Back Bay Books, 2006 Just keep trying. Eventually you'll figure out how to master mayonnaise. + Good Book for Foodies + Love Julie! I rounded up. I'dve gone with a 4.5., mainly because I think that some points were belabored, but it was a hysterical memoir filled with mistakes and blunders, cursing and all-in-all a wonderful narrator. I think one of the paragraphs towards the end summed it up for me: "Sometimes, if you want to ...             Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage)12 reviews Madhur Jaffrey Vintage, 2007 Delightful! + Food and family flavor this memoir + Madhur Jaffrey's remembrances of life and food in India + Wonderful Mirror of a Childhood spent in Delhi + Enjoyable             Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella21 reviews David Shalleck, Erol Munuz Broadway, 2007 Absolutely Delightful + Great Travel Memoir + Don't read on an empty stomach! + I love this book + I absolutely LOVED this book!!!             Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella21 reviews David Shalleck, Erol Munuz Broadway, 2008 Absolutely Delightful + Great Travel Memoir + Don't read on an empty stomach! + I love this book + I absolutely LOVED this book!!!             Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen195 reviews Julie Powell, 2005 Hilariously yummy! + Too Funny to Pass Up! + Fun AND taught me about cooking. Well, a little about cooking... Oh. My. God. This was easily one of THE best books I have ever read! Who knew that hidden among the writings on food books was a gem of this caliber and magnificence. Julie Powell was like many failed actresses who had moved to New York before her...stuck in a dead end job. She was unhappy in ...             The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School32 reviews Kathleen Flinn Viking Adult, 2007 Deliciously Excellent! + Funny, intellegent, story of life under heat in Paris This book is interesting and funny. It is one of those books that make you laugh out loud ... as proven for me at work when I was trying to look like I was working but was actually devouring this book. BUSTED. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!             Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China14 reviews Fuchsia Dunlop W. W. Norton, 2008 A delightful & adventerous culinary memoir + Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China + Best down the Pike + Superb Book For the Armchair Traveler             The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals464 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch + Amazing Read + Thought-provoking and terrifying + Changed My World View             A Year in Provence132 reviews Peter Mayle Vintage, 1991 Part Travelogue; Part Love Letter + A Year of Surprises + Absolutely Delightful & Entertaining + Très délicieux