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Your Essential Food Books? (self.food)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] MiscreantMouse@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These lean more toward food science & food politics, but here are some of my favorites:

Catching Fire - Richard Wrangham
The Dorito Effect - Mark Schatzker
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Food Politics - Marion Nestle

[–] lazy_rogue_spirals 1 points 1 year ago

All great stuff. I'm a fan of Pollan's work, as well.

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