Sugar: A Bittersweet History

Elizabeth Abbott

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Samin Nosrat

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Anthony Bourdain

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Michael Pollan

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants

Ann Hui

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies)

Deborah Fitzgerald

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer 8. Lee

Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm

Erin Byers Murray

Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World

Cheuk Kwan

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

Aaron Bobrow-Strain