Our list of some of the best Food Writing books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Memoir, Recipes, and More (2015)
- Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®) (2018)
- The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®) (2019)
- Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing (2016)
- Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food) (2005)
- Best Food Writing 2015 (2015)
- You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) (2018)
- Food: A Reader for Writers (2014)
- Best Food Writing 2017 (2017)
- Best Food Writing 2013 (2013)
- American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes: A Library of America Special Publication (2009)
Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Memoir, Recipes, and More (2015)
With recipe-driven blogs, cookbooks, reviews, and endless foodie websites, food writing is ever in demand. In this award-winning guide, noted journalist and writing instructor Dianne Jacob offers tips and strategies for getting published and other ways to turn your passion into cash, whether it’s in print or online.
Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®) (2018)
“Food writing is stepping out,” legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing.
The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®) (2019)
“Good food writing evokes the senses,” writes Samin Nosrat, best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and star of the Netflix adaptation of the book. “It makes us consider divergent viewpoints. It makes us hungry and motivates us to go out into the world in search of new experiences. It charms and angers us, breaks our hearts, and gives us hope.
Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing (2016)
“Food writing spans centuries and philosophies. . . . At long last there’s a Norton Anthology with all the most important works.”―EaterEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume.
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food) (2005)
A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth ReichlFor sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food.
Best Food Writing 2015 (2015)
Anthony Bourdain, John T. Edge, Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Ruth Reichl, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters. These are just some of the celebrated writers and foodies whose work has appeared in Best Food Writing over the past fifteen years. Whether written by an established journalist or an up-and-coming blogger, the essays offered in each edition represent the cream of that year’s crop in food writing.
You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) (2018)
Good food is the common ground shared by all of us, and immigration is fundamental to good food. In nineteen thoughtful and engaging essays and stories, You and I Eat the Same explores the ways in which cooking and eating connect us across cultural and political borders, making the case that we should think about cuisine as a collective human effort in which we all benefit from the movement of people, ingredients, and ideas.
Food: A Reader for Writers (2014)
Read. Write. Oxford. From the hearty dishes of the American South to hotly debated GMOs, Food: A Reader for Writers serves up articles from a wide range of cultures, economic strata, and moments in time. It covers food’s relationship to such topics as memory and identity, politics and health, the environment and economy, and travel and worldviews.
Best Food Writing 2017 (2017)
From small-town bakeries to big city restaurants, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For eighteen years, Holly Hughes has scoured both the online and print world to serve up the finest collection of food writing.
Best Food Writing 2013 (2013)
Best Food Writing is the place where readers and food writers meet to celebrate the most delicious prose of the year—serving up everything to whet your appetite from entertaining blogs to provocative journalism.
American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes: A Library of America Special Publication (2009)
In this groundbreaking anthology, celebrated food writer Molly O’Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth-watering chapter on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K.
Best Food Writing Books to Read
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Hunger and Postcolonial Writing
Author(s): Muzna Rahman
ID: 3373666, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
The Best American Food Writing 2022
Author(s): Sohla El-Waylly; Silvia Killingsworth
ID: 3578428, Publisher: HarperCollins, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
The Best American Food Writing 2021
Author(s): Gabrielle Hamilton, Silvia Killingsworth
ID: 3111643, Publisher: Mariner Books, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.