Eat Better, or Culturally, or Learn a New Recipe, or Just Think about Food Differently

Eat Culturally:

The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe
By Lesley Chamberlain
With a new introduction by the author

Learning a little about the food while learning recipes

Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child
By Betty Fussell
With a preface by the author

Learn a New Recipe:

Good Things
By Jane Grigson
From the At Table series
A celebration of fresh daily fare lovingly prepared

Think Differently and Literary about food while learning new French recipes:

Dining with Marcel Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque
By Shirley King
Foreword by James Beard

Like an edible À la recherche du temps perdu.

Eat Culturally

Pampille’s Table: Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside from Marthe Daudet’s Les Bons Plats de France
Translated and adapted by Shirley King

More literary French eating!

Think differently about food:

Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias
Edited by Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch
From the At Table series

Eat Better and culturally:


A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
By Alma Hogan Snell
From the At Table series

Read an excerpt and get some neat recipes for buffaloberry!