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Your Essential Food Books? (self.food)

submitted 2 years ago by lazy_rogue_spirals to c/food

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For those of you with a cooking/food writing/food science collection, what's indispensable? What do you currently find yourself returning to again and again?

For me, Nikki Segnit's "Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium' and Flavor Thesaurus: More Flavors are both in there, along with The Noma Guide to Fermentation, Koji Alchemy, and *Burma: Rivers of Flavor." Oh, and Sercarz's *Spice Companion."

For food writing, I'm always happy to dip into some M.F.K. Fisher.

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[–] lazy_rogue_spirals 1 points 2 years ago

The McGee sounds like just the kind of thing I love. I've seen it here and there but never picked it up, weirdly. Gonna look for it, as well as some Steingarten.