18 books like Julie and Julia

What to read after Julie and Julia — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Cooking of South-West France Paula Wolfert · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Recipes for sauces, soups, salads, appetizers, main dishes, vegetables, and desserts capture the flavor of traditional and contemporary French cooking. Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking

Modern French culinary art Henri Paul Pellaprat · 1960 · 1037p · ≈ 34h · Challenging Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking with this book.

French Country Cooking (Cookery Library) Elizabeth David · 1951 · ★ 1.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A remarkable book ... food is treated with reverence, with understanding and, above all, with care' - Sunday Times Full of authentic recipes, this richly evocative book describes some of the splendid regional cookery of France. The food of each area has its own particular flavour, derived naturally from local resources. FRENCH COUNTRY COOKING shows the immense diversity of the cuisine through… Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking, Nonfiction

Tender at the bone Ruth Reichl · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate For better or worse, almost all of us grow up at the table. It is in this setting that Ruth Reichl's brilliantly written memoir takes its form. For, at a very early age, Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world . . . if you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Tender at the Bone is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in… Shares Cooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

The Apprentice Jacques Pépin · 2003 · ★ 4.2 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Cooks, Cooking, Biography & Memoir with this book.

La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, ou, Nouvelle cuisine économique .. L.-E Audot · 1829 · 688p · ≈ 22h · Demanding Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking with this book.

A Book of Mediterranean Food Elizabeth David · 1950 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself —and her audience— up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain,… Shares French Cooking, Cooking, Nonfiction

Guide culinaire Auguste Escoffier · 1903 · 902p · ≈ 30h · Challenging This record includes reprints of the first American edition. Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table Maya Angelou · 2004 · ★ 4.3 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate My husband opened the refrigerator door. Sliced eclairs were stacked on every shelf. "I'll never eat another eclair as long as I live," he said. I gave most of the eclairs to friends, to staff, and to the soup kitchen. But I kept one gargantuan loaf as proof that cooking helps me to write. I pulled out the stubborn manuscripts, which to date had resistered me successfully, and suddenly the words… Shares Anecdotes, Cooking, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Larousse of Gastronomy Joël Robuchon · 2000 · 1206p · ≈ 40h · Moderate "Has now been updated to add the latest advancements that have forever changed the way we cook, including modern technological methods, such as sous-vide cooking and molecular gastronomy. All-new color ingredient-identification photographs give this edition a fresh, elegant look. And...Larousse features more than 400 reportage photos--candid images of upscale restaurants from around the… Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking

Le répertoire de la cuisine Louis Saulnier · 1914 · ★ 5.0 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate First published in 1914, _Le Repertoire de La Cuisine_ is an international culinary treasure written by Escoffier's very own student, Louis Saulnier. The Repertoire, as it is commonly known, is a shorthand guide to the cuisine of the master. This edition includes a special insert with introductory remarks from distinguished chef Jacques Pepin; the late George Lang, renowned food consultant; as… Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking

Shi shuo xin yu Liu, Yiqing · 1615 · ★ 3.5 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Anecdotes, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book Alice B. Toklas · 1954 · ★ 4.0 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "A collection of traditional French recipes ... [and] memories of Paris ... and of rural France, Spain, and America"--P. [4] of cover. Shares French Cookery, French Cooking, Cooking

Just a matter of thyme Roxie Kelley · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Cooking, Nonfiction with this book.

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Menus made easy, or, How to order dinner and give the dishes their French names Nancy Lake · 1880 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares French Cooking, Cooking with this book.

White Heat Marco Pierre White · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate With its unique blend of outspoken opinion, recipes and dramatic photographs by the late legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, White Heat captures the magic and spirit of Marco Pierre White in the heat of his kitchen. This 25th anniversary edition features brand new material, including photographs from the late Bob Carlos Clarke and contributions from James Steen, Lindsey Carlos Clarke and a… Shares Cooks, Cooking, Biography & Memoir

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Lectin Free Cookbook Clarissa Fleming · 2018 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Light Shares Cooking with this book.

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