I just searched Chowhound using "Food Books" and came up with a lot of listings. This might be a good place for you to start. Certainly anything by Anthony Bourdain, M.F.K. Fisher, Margaret Visser, Jeffrey Steingarten, R.W, Apple...

Anyone have any favorite food literature? Not cookbooks, but writing ABOUT food.

Should you make them eat their broccoli?

In which authors display a stunning variety of descriptive powers about food.

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

A primer on Persian, a.k.a. Iranian, food.

in the late spring). Particularly interested in ramen, fugu, tea ceremonies, street food, perhaps a zen monastery. And although I sadly cannot partake of them, I’m sure my husband would appreciate suggestions for sushi and...

contributing writers. My favorite is Michael Broadbent. And, if you should happen to wish to visit the Loire valley, I highly recommend Jacqueline Friedrich’s "A Wine and Food Guide to the Loire." It’s an excellent...

Follow the link below to an interesting article in the June 4 Princeton Alumni Weekly about an Italian literature course called "The Literature of Gastronomy" taught by Professor Pietro Frassica. The article includes literature...

Alimentum, a literary journal about food, produces some scrumptious fiction in its seventh issue.

Would you rather be with someone who has bad taste in food or bad taste in literature?

Bigos is a hearty stew that morphs between each making and each generation.

Been in SE Asia the last three weeks, and food has been uniformly good EXCEPT when on tours or at some hotels that think whities are too scared to eat the local food. This irritates me in a significant way, and I gotta rant. Are...

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I love food in fiction! Some of my favorite passages are from Like Water for Chocolate (Esquivel), Farmer Boy (Wilder), A Christmas Memory (Capote), Babette’s Feast (Dinesen), and Fried Green Tomatoes...(Flagg). Love reading...