Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant

Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

by Jenni Ferrari-Adler

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

Blithe Tomato

by Mike Madison

Coming Home to Eat

The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Cooking

by James Peterson

Eat Here

Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

by Brian Halweil

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

by Marcella Hazan

Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser

Fields of Plenty

A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It

by Michael Ableman

Fish Forever

The Definitive Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy, Delicious, and Environmentally Sustainable Seafood

by Paul Johnson

Food Not Lawns

How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community

by Heather Flores

Good Tempered Food

Recipes to Love, Leave, and Linger Over

by Tamasin Day-Lewis

Good Things

by Jane Grigson

How to Cook Everything

Simple Recipes for Great Food

by Mark Bittman

How to Pick a Peach

The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table

by Russ Parsons

In Defense of Food

An Eater’s Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

Into the Vietnamese Kitchen

Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors

by Andrea Nguyen

Keep Chickens!

Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and Other Small Spaces

by Barbara Kilarski

Mexico One Plate at a Time

by Rick Bayless

On Food and Cooking

The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

by Harold McGee

Organic, Inc.

Natural Foods and How They Grew

by Samuel Fromartz

Roast Chicken and Other Stories

by Simon Hopkinson

Taming the Truffle

The History, Lore, and Science of the Ultimate Mushroom

by Gordon T. Brown, Ian R. Hall, and Alessandra Zambonelli

The All-New, All-Purpose Joy of Cooking

by Ethan Becker, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Irma S. Rombauer

The Art of Eating

by M. F. K. Fisher

The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook

Recipes for the Best Pan in Your Kitchen

by Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis Hearne

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food

by Claudia Roden

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

The River Cottage Meat Book

by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

The Soul of a New Cuisine

A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa

by Marcus Samuelsson

The Story of Corn

by Betty Fussell

The Taste of Country Cooking

by Edna Lewis

The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without

by Mollie Katzen

Veganomicon

The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

by Deborah Madison

What to Eat

An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating

by Marion Nestle