Recs if you like Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen...

Books about food, either non-fiction or foodie fiction

Books with titles that start with the most uncommon letters to begin words: X, Q, Z & J.

I wanted to join the fun in doing an alphabet challenge and am currently adding X and Z to complete my alphabet of books :) Here’s some recommendations if others want a similar challenge!

Do you sometimes just want to wind down and forget about the world around you? Same! That's one of the great things about reading, it gives you the opportunity to live other lives and experience different things that you might not ever be able to in real life! But sometimes there will be heavy/depressing books that will be hard to get out of a slump from☹️. And that's what this list is for! These are low stakes, easy/comfortable reads that just let your emotions be for awhile. Enjoy! 😉

Books related to the culinary arts and amateur baking - all genres, mixed audience

These are all books and plays that have been turned into films or stage productions, what they all have in common is that Meryl Streep has starred in them. Disclaimer: some films have been loosely based on the books.

Every book that has been adapted into a movie covered by the Blank Check podcast

Tales from the kitchen

Books that do a great job of making your mouth water from their great food descriptions or show fascinating things about food.

Long term relationships and the immediate cope, rediscovering yourself and its mirror, and maybe speedrunning some healing only to realize it will always be slow

Books about food, travel, nature, and the ways they intersect. May be narrative cookbooks, travelogues, foraging guides - anything that makes my feet itch for travel and my hands quest for spices and spoons.

Sometimes the books aren’t better. Sometimes the movie or TV adaptation outperforms the source material by a MILE. These are those books.

This isn’t to say you shouldn’t read them, but you might be a little disappointed compared to their on-screen counterparts. Give them a read, and you be the judge!

These travelogues give upper middle class white woman on a self discovery journey and I’m all here for it

Take a bite out of these delicious reads! Do I have something in my teeth? 📖