A moving excerpt from a new book examines how food and love intertwine.

Have old-school food rags like Gourmet and Food & Wine turned into over-commercialized cheerleaders for the luxe life? The eating readers debate at Chowhound.

Two food authors are blogging our edible past.

Ruth Reichl discovers the joys of freezer jam.

Jeffery Steingarten (The Man Who Ate Everything) and Pat Conroy (The Pat Conroy Cookbook.) {Many food memoirs and not just a good cookbook}

I think this is actually an old argument re the NY Times restaurant critics (or maybe about food criticism in general; I don’t know) - IIRC, Ruth Reichl wrote in her memoir about being criticised for not having a "food...

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...

for Kerouac in her memoir, "Minor Characters."

Can anyone recommend any good food essays? I have read Waverly Root’s both books on Italy and France, Tender to the Bone – Ruth Rechl and all of Laurie Colwin’s books. I’m having a hard time to find new...

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

Jeff Henderson, the executive chef at Café Bellagio in Vegas, began his career as a big-time coke dealer. He’s gone and written a memoir about his transformation—and the excerpts on eGullet are certainly fascinating.

with my purchase! Has anyone cooked from this book? It’s part cookbook and part memoir.

Have you checked out Ruth Reichl’s memoir “Tender at the Bone”? My wife and I enjoyed it so much we read it twice on our honeymoon. Whatever you think of her work, it is definitely a well-written memoir of a...

So, I just finished this memoir book. Anyone else read it? I am interested in other opinions. It really made me question my personal “relationship” with food and eating in general. I have always struggled w/ weight...

A truly charming and wonderful book is Spoonbread & Strawberry Wine by Norma Jean Darden and Carol Darden. It’s a classic soul food cookbook that’s also a wonderfully written memoir and family history. There’s a...