Culinary Biographies

Red Green was recycling material long before the green revolution got underway. Look at the autmobiles he's driven over the years. Many of those were assem...

A true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Publishers Weekly When the author, an American journalist and software executive wo...

What Are My Qualifications To Write This Book? None Really. So Why Should You Read It? Here's Why: I'm A Little Fat. If A Thin Guy Were To Write About A Lov...

Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After ...

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days.When beloved singer and songwriter Jann A...

James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages in the...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten y...

NPR's Best Books of 2017 Best Books on Food of 2017, The Guardian Best Food-Focused Memoirs, Eater Top 10 Narrative Food & Drink Books, Booklist 20 Bes...

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the...

The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated book that’s part memoir...

"Being Martha is a personal—at times a searingly personal—account of Martha's life from the inside, by a friend. It's fascinating—very anecdotal and ...

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called “first-hand food”—meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the wo...

The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Ba...

Go fashion forward with this brand new collection of easy-to-make cocktails that offers a dollop of sartorial history with every drink. Dressed to Swill c...

As a Harley Street behavioural change specialist, Sandra Roycroft-Davis knows that what's going on inside our heads is pivotal to a healthy relationship w...

Today’s Most Highly Regarded Writer On Indian Food Gives Us An Enchanting Memoir Of Her Childhood In Delhi In An Age And A Society That Has Since Disappear...

When actress Claudia Christian flees a troubled childhood and moves to Hollywood at age 17, she steps through the looking glass into another world. From th...

The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius ...

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food ra...

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural...

gala Opera Evenings. Sudden Wealth And Fame. Dangerous Undercover Missions Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany. Standing Up To The Perils Of The Blitz. No One ...

A funny, sexy, and wildly entertaining look at the rewards of fully realized desire in the life of one ordinary woman. At 43 years old, Pamela Madsen was ha...

An ordinary man's inspiring journey toward a simpler, more meaningful life. In 2008, average American family man Dave Bruno decided to unhook himself fr...

Fight cancer and help prevent recurrence with these delicious smoothies!Over the last few years there has been a tremendous surge in research identifying t...

The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius ...

A sharp, funny, informative and deliciously captivating book about writer, Bill Buford's year-in-training as a cook at Mario Batali's famous New York restau...

Lifestyle pioneer and bestselling author Debbie Travis is back with a book of ridiculously funny, touching and true stories drawn from her own life and dedi...

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disa...

They come from three distinct corners of the world. Michael Bonacini grew up as part of an Italian family in Wales, Massimo Capra first tied on an apron in...

Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America's godmother of Italian cooking...

Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin shares her story of undergoing and overcoming two decades of misdiagnosed thyroid disease and shows how the estimated 60 milli...

During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met & knew some of the 20th century's most fascinating & legendary figures, in journalism, politics, p...

The gripping first-person account of one woman's survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds."A vibrantly physical book"—The Guardian • "Upli...

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

Praise for Jesus Freak "Sara Miles is amazing, a wild, unique, funny Christian who puts her lack-of-money where her mouth is, which is in loving Jesus and...

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own m...

A riveting behind-the-scenes look at the world of three-star French "haute cuisine" as revealed through the biography of one of France's most celebrated che...

From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to s...

You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of exp...

From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

Now in paperback, the eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category.In the winter of 1996, Mic...

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s b...

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popul...

A Humorous And Revealing Account From Inside The Ultimate Boys' Club As One Female Cook Transforms The Frat Food Experience And Serves Up Generous Helpings ...

The Inspiring And Sometimes Hilarious Story Of A Family That Quit The Rat Race And Left The City To Live Out Their Ideals On An Organic Farm, And Ended Up B...

A third volume of memoirs from the national treasure and Number 1 Bestseller David Jason, following on from the success of his previous much-loved books My ...