We can all identify ourselves when we read a book that we really enjoy, especially if that book talks about food.
Well, here are eight books in which, somewhere on their pages, food is the main character.
1. "Tales for Very Picky Eaters" -- Josh Schneider
This book is for all of the picky people that had it hard to eat something unknown when they were kids. This is a children's book that will bring you sweet memories of your childhood. Also, if you have kids, you can read to them this book when it is time for bed.
2. "The Cupcake Queen" -- Heather Helper
The life of this girl changes totally when she starts working at her mom's bakery shop. Who doesn't love those sweet cupcakes!
3. "Julie and Julia" -- Julie Powell
I bet you have seen this movie a couple of times already, but I bet you haven't read the book it was based on. This book is about Julie, a woman that works in a small cubicle and lives in a small apartment with her husband above a pizza restaurant in New York. She finds herself trapped because she doesn't finish anything that she starts. That is where the adorable and strong Julia Child appears, and both stories connect to each other.
4. "Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food" -- Jeffrey Pilcher
From New York’s famed Empellón Taqueria to the countless fast food taco chains. Mexican cuisine has now spread to the far reaches of the globe and has fascinated even those mildly interested in food and culinary arts. Pilcher explores the rise in popularity of the taco but also traces it to its roots, showing us that it is a relative newcomer within Mexican cuisine.
5. "Kitchen Wars" -- Betty Fussell
"My Kitchen Wars" is a war story -- but the warrior is a woman, and the battleground is the kitchen. Her weapons -- the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives -- evoke a lifelong need to make dinner, love, and war. With these implements, Betty Fussell pries open the past, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped but also silenced by an era of global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam.
6. "A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family" -- Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
After growing up in the most obsessed city in the world, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan left home and family at 18 for America -- proof of the rebelliousness of a daughter born in the Year of the Tiger. But as a 30-something fashion writer in New York, she felt the Singaporean dishes that defined her childhood beginning to call her back. Was it too late to learn the secrets of her grandmothers' and aunties' kitchens, as well as the tumultuous family history that had kept them hidden before? In her quest to recreate the dishes of her native Singapore by cooking with her family, Tan learned not only cherished recipes but long-buried stories of past generations.
7. "Eat, Pray, Love" -- Elizabeth Gilberth
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself." So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains 25 pounds.
8. "The Supper of Lamb: A Culinary Reflection" -- Robert Farrar Capon
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry.
We often hear someone saying "I'm hungry" or "I'm always hungry." And when you look at them they are thin as a stick. We can find someone as well that shares our passion for reading a good book and cooking an awesome dish. These eight awesome books are the key to the inspiration to every heart out there that likes to have a full stomach. Happy stomach, happy heart.
