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This is another prompt with lots of possibilities. Keep it simple by reading a book with food in the title or a delicious looking cake on the cover, or challenge yourself to read a book about food science. A book with a chef as the main character would count too, or if you enjoy cooking or baking then this is the perfect excuse to buy a new recipe book.

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Optional Questions:
- What are you reading this week?
- What is the connection with food?
- What is your all time favourite food?

I've been wanting to read it forever, especially since Boudain's death so I am almost positive I will read, well actually listen to since he is the narrator, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. I also have A Bite-Sized History of France: Delicious, Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment on my TBR which sounds interesting.

If anyone is looking for fiction that has food in the plot, I would recommend Crazy Rich Asians. It's very soap opera-ish but the descriptions of food had me salivating! I also liked Grist Mill Road and one of the main characters is a food blogger.

So many possibilities. Just off the top of my head:
My Life in France
The Cafe by the Sea
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Aunty Lee's Delights
Sourdough
Kitchen

I have read Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, but would like to read it again.

I'm planning to read Lucy Knisley's Relish. Although I do have Crazy Rich Asians on hold at the library and given the length of time it is taking for my name to move slowly to the top I could end up reading it next year.

If you like magical realism, Sarah Addison Allen has quite a few books that are food-related. I highly recommend The Sugar Queen, Peach Keeper, and Garden Spells (whose sequel First Frost would also work, but I haven't read yet so I can't recommend). All of her books are sweet and uplifting and the perfect palate cleanser after reading a dark or heavy book.

Emily wrote: "If you like magical realism, Sarah Addison Allen has quite a few books that are food-related. I highly recommend The Sugar Queen, Peach Keeper, and [book:Garden Spell..."

Thank you for the reminder, Emily. I have been wanting to read something by her.

Top of my list is Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine.

I can highly recommend some, too. Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer were all great!

Gahhhh! I love this category, but how can I choooose????

I could read a microhistory (soooo many about food!) like Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

Or a history from the pov of food like A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

Or a more general book about food like The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (I could swear I read this already but before Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ?)

Or a book about cooking and culture, with recipes: The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

Or a cozy mystery, which I usually don't like, but ... dumplings! Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

OR a "cozy" romance (which I also don't usually like, but this looks so good): The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan

????

This is definitely a category where I think the challenge will be narrowing down my options.

A few I have read recently and enjoyed that would work for this category:
Sourdough
Like Water for Chocolate
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I'm saving Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly for the author with addiction reject prompt, and will probably do Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking .... or possibly bourdain's other book if i feel so inclined.

I had the book The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake on my TBR for at least a years. o happy to have a reason to read it! I could have put it for an weird title too cause what could be sad about cake. I guess I will have to read the book to find out!!

SO many possibilities for this. I love food-related fiction so much that I have a tag for just that, lol.

Right now, I'm leaning toward The Girl Who Chased the Moon. I've loved everything I've ever read from Sarah Addison Allen, but this is one I've never read. I have it listed for a couple of other prompts, though, so we'll see.

I love this category too. I'm thinking of reading How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

Other options:
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen - Laurie Colwin
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth (Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery #1) - Tamar Myers

You could also go the "lack of food route" and choose one of the many books about this, for example Hunger by Knut Hamsun or The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller.

I really enjoyed Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. It reads like fiction, and at the same time it is very insightful to the world of cuisine and professional kitchens.

Kelly wrote: "I had the book The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake on my TBR for at least a years. o happy to have a reason to read it! I could have put it for an weird title too cause what could b..."

I loved The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake!

I'm definitely going fiction for this one...

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile (sugar)
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Streetby Susan Jane Gilman (ice cream)
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid (cover)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (salt)
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen (cover)
Kids of Appetite by David Arnold (appetite)
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg (content)

If anyone wants a memoir, I really enjoyed The House at Sugar Beach - it's got very little to do with food, however. (Though I suppose some meals must be described at some point, can't remember.)

I have Kitchen Confidential and a few other culinary members or micro histories on my infinity list so I decided to use a different take on food for this years challenge and read about anorexia and bulimia, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. I worked with a few people over the last year who struggle with this so I'd like to learn a little more.
I also saw Salvage the Bones on someones list, which I am really interested in trying and I would LOVE to do a re-read of The Hunger Games ( for the 4th time or something?)

I really enjoyed Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater by Frank Bruni, the memoir of a former restaurant critic for the New York Times, and A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan.

Here are some other food memoirs I'm considering:
Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan by Michael Booth (a food/travel writer and his wife and two young children travel the length of Japan, sampling the cuisine along the way).
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table or Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl (memoirs of the famous editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine).
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg (memoir about a young couple opening a restaurant together).
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites by Kate Christensen (a novelist's food-centric memoir).
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton (memoir from chef/proprietor of acclaimed NYC restaurant, Prune).
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings by Calvin Trillin (a collection of Trillin's food essays from the 70s and 80s).

I'm going to read Heft by Liz Moore. It has a morbidly obese character, which is a close enough fit for this prompt, imo. I had planned to read it this year but I probably wouldn't get to it so I bumped it to 2019. I loved Moore's The Unseen World so I'm hoping this is also a good read.

Edited: I actually did read this in 2018 (and it was a good book though not as awesome as The Unseen World) so I'll be using something else for this topic.

dalex wrote: "I'm going to read Heft by Liz Moore. It has a morbidly obese character, which is a close enough fit for this prompt, imo. I had planned to read it this year ..."

This was good I thought, dalex. I listened to it on audio ( which never works for me) and was interested enough to buy a kindle copy so I could read it and actually absorb the whole thing.

I'm either going to read What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank, Krista D. Ball, or get busy testing bread recipes from 100 great breads.

Chocolat could work also

these are all chick lit. I highly suggest the Simplicity of Cider : )

Choosing my favorite author Liane Moriarty. I haven't read Three Wishes yet so will read that one.

Three Wishes

I'm going with The Orange Girl, but can recommend:

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Chocolat
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Non-fic - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

What are you reading this week?
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

What is the connection with food?
a magical apple tree

I read Julie Caplin, The Little Brooklyn Bakery for this topic - light and frothy, and perfect reading for a weekday commute.

my pick for this is :Footprints in the Frosting

by Laura Pauling
it has cheese cake on the cover ,the main character makes and sells cheese cake in her new shop
and my all time favorite food is pizza

What are you reading this week?
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

What is the connection with food?
This is a nonfiction book about the fast food industry. It also has french fries on the cover



What is your all time favourite food?
Whip up just about any kind of pasta dish and I'll be happy

I jusrt finished Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen.

The main character is deathly allergic to peanuts.
It is a quick read, perfect for middleschooler.

My all time favourite food...there's so many, popcorn, peanut butter, Pad Thai

- What are you reading this week?
I am reading Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami.

- What is the connection with food?
The 2 main characters are frequently dining (and drinking beer and saki). All of the food, which is Japanese, is unusual to me (e.g. octopus marinated in wasabi, grated yam soup, matsutake mushrooms, smoked squid, yudofu, yellowtail teriyaki, yakisoba, etc.) It's all very interesting-sounding food!

- What is your all time favorite food?
Green chile cheese enchiladas

What are you reading this week?Sayaka Murata
I read Convenience Store Woman by
What is the connection with food?
The various sections of the store that are hot foods, cold foods, drinks; how the protagonist can watch the behaviour of customers and know what and when to have certain foods ready and how to have them arranged.
What is your all-time favorite food?
Shrimp

- What are you reading this week?
For this category I read Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- What is the connection with food?
The main character is the baker at a family coffee shop/restaurant, which is also a frequent setting for the action.

- What is your all time favourite food?
Perfectly ripe, crisp, sweet watermelon... mmm....

What are you reading this week?

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

What is the connection with food?

Title/Cover/Plot



The main character Lillian builds an ice cream empire through the course of the novel.

What is your all time favourite food?

Pasta yummmmm

What are you reading this week? Bring it! : tried and true recipes for potlucks and casual entertaining
- What is the connection with food? recipes and more!

What are you reading this week?
Whisky Galore!, by Compton Mackenzie



What is the connection with food?
So it’s not strictly a food, but whisky is in the title.

What is your all time favourite food?
Too many to list here, but fruit is always on the menu.

- What are you reading this week?
- What is the connection with food? There are oranges on the cover.
- What is your all time favourite food? Almost anything seafood!! I love seafood!!

What are you reading this week?
I read A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley

What is the connection with food?
The fish in the title

What is your all time favourite food?
Raspberries with cream

- What are you reading this week? Sugar
- What is the connection with food? Title plus topic - it's about an overweight teen, with an overweight bedbound (due to her weight) Mother. Their relationship with food is a bit part of the story.
- What is your all time favourite food? Lasagne!

I read The Dinner by Herman Koch for this task. The title and construction are food-related. My favorite foods are veggies and Cheez-Its.

Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan sounds great! I really want to go to Japan at some point (mostly for the food to be honest), so that’ll be a perfect read to prepare this trip!

I want to read Convenience Store Woman which features a decorative onigiri (rice ball) on the cover, and seems like it would include plenty of mentions of convenience store bento lunches!

I do love onigiri and all kinds of sushi :)

I love books about food both fiction and nonfiction. I especially love memoirs by chefs.
I read for this prompt Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise and it was great. It is about Ruth Reichl’s time as food critic for The NY Times.
I love all different kinds of food but Mexican food is my absolute favorite.

The Chef's Secret by Crystal King
I would probably never have happened upon this book -- but found it just for this challenge.

What are you reading this week? Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
What is the connection with food? The main character is a waitress at an upscale NYC restaurant.
What is your all time favourite food? Baked Macaroni and Cheeseeeeeee

- What are you reading this week?
I am reading A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- What is the connection with food?
There is a raisin in the title :)
- What is your all time favourite food?
Seriously, you might as well ask me to name a single favorite book. Depends on my mood, I would think.

- What are you reading this week?
*I am reading 32 YOLKS: FROM MY MOTHER'S TABLE TO WORKING THE LINE by Eric Ripert, a book I've been wanting to read for a long time. Had picked it off the shelf at Barnes & Noble some time ago, read several pages over a chai latte in the B&N cafe, decided I want to read it eventually, but put it back on the shelf because other books won out over this memoir (the budget would not support buying it that day). When I saw the challenge re "A book related to food," I thought of several I wanted to read, listing 32 YOLKS as well as a novel titled LIVE AND LET CHAI by Bree Baker plus BUTTERMILK GRAFFITI by Edward Lee as possibilities for #47 (later deciding to move Lee's book over to #41 challenge instead). Just yesterday, having purchased Ripert's memoir via Amazon "just in case that's the one I'll go with," I opened the book - and am already more than halfway thru it. I love food-related books & magazines, and I have to say that this one is looking to be highly recommended when I rate & review it! Not just about the food... but it sure matters a whole lot!

- What is the connection with food?
*Lots of connections. Obviously the title is one, and the fact that Ripert is a now a world-renowned chef. And the book takes the reader through his early experiences with food via all kinds of food exposures and onward toward later culinary adventures. I am also aware, based on what I've read thus far, that is also very much about how food saved him...

- What is your all time favorite food?
*Hands down, it's Chicken & Dumplings the way my mother used to make it, updated a bit with my own fresh 'n' local preferences whenever possible, as well as a few dried and/or fresh spices or other ingredients that Mom never used, perhaps wouldn't have know what to do with (like thyme, fennel, parsnips, marjoram...). I love to cook and to bake and to read about all things foodie. In fact, for almost 2 years, I wrote a food blog at which can still be reached online. Have thought about going back to it - but it's time-consuming and would get in the way of all the reading I want to get to!

I am reading 'bread alone' by Judi Hendricks.

I'm reading by Viola Shipman.

The connection with food is how a pasty chef rediscovers and reconnects with what's most important to her -- family, love, a shared passion for food -- through a lost recipe box.

My favorite food is pasta: any time, any day, any way. Or a really juicy roast chicken.

I read Delicious! for this prompt. The main character works at a food magazine and a cheese shop in New York City but was also a baker when she was a kid. The best parts of the book involve letters she finds written by a young girl to James Beard.

I could live on good cheese and crackers (with wine thrown in every once in a while!)