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Food Memoirs

Not a cookbook, not a biography, a food memoir often combines both. These books share the writer's experiences with food as told from their past. They chronicle the growth of the author through the lens of food memories and their formative years. HerrickDL AdultPicks

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  • Blood, Bones, & Butter

    the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

    Hamilton, Gabrielle
    Book, 2011New York : Random House, [2011], ©2011.
  • Kitchen Confidential

    Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Bourdain, Anthony
    Book, 2007New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
  • The Table Comes First

    Family, France, and the Meaning of Food

    Gopnik, Adam
    Book, 2011New York : Knopf, 2011. — 394.12 Gop 12/11
  • Heat

    An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany

    Buford, Bill
    Book, 2006New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2006], ©2006.
  • Toast

    the Story of a Boy's Hunger

    Slater, Nigel
    Book, 2004New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, 2004.
  • Tender at the Bone

    Growing Up at the Table

    Reichl, Ruth
    Book, 1998New York : Random House, [1998], ©1998.
  • Book, 2007New York : Anchor Books, 2007, ©2006. — 920 Chi 10/09
  • The Feast Nearby

    How I Lost My Job, Buried a Marriage, and Found My Way by Keeping Chickens, Foraging, Preserving, Bartering, and Eating Locally (all on $40 a Week)

    Mather, Robin
    Book, 2011Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed Press, 2011.
  • Born Round

    the Secret History of a Full-time Eater

    Bruni, Frank
    Book, 2009New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
  • The Apprentice

    My Life in the Kitchen

    Pépin, Jacques
    Book, 2003Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003. — 920 Pep 5/03
  • Trail of Crumbs

    Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

    Sunée, Kim
    Book, 2008New York : Grand Central Pub., 2008.
  • A Homemade Life

    Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table

    Wizenberg, Molly
    Book, 2009New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
  • Book, 2012New York : Random House, [2012], ©2012. — 920 Sam 7/12
  • 52 Loaves

    One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust

    Alexander, William, 1953-
    Book, 2010Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2010], ©2010.