What we are reading now: Down and Out in Paradise, a biography of Anthony Bourdain.

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Books Read by the Slow Book Group:

• 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line, Eric Rupert
• Alice, Let’s Eat, Calvin Trillan
• Amarcord, Marcella Hazan
• The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, Jacques Pepin
• Babette’s Feast, Isak Dinesen
• Beans, A History, Ken Albala
• Black, White, and The Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant, by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano
• Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot, Edward Lee
• The Buying and Selling of Food in America, Michael Rulman
• California Soul, Tonya Holland
• Clementine in the Kitchen, Prineas Beck
• Climbing the Mango Trees, Madhur Jaffrey
• Coming to my Senses, Alice Waters
• Crying in H Mart, Michele Zauner
• Down and Out in Paradise, a biography of Anthony Bourdain
• Eat A Peach: A Memoir, David Chang
• Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods, by Sarah Lohman
• The Fate of Food: What to Eat in a Bigger, Smarter, Hotter World, Amanda Little
• Field Days, Jonah Raskin
• Finding Freedom, Erin French
• The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of a Globetrotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats, Daniel Stone
• From Scratch, Tembi Locke
• Grocery, Michael Ruhlman
• Hawker Fare Stories and Recipes from a Refugee Chef’s Isan Thai and Lao Roots, James Syhabout
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• The Language of Baklava, Diana Abu-Jaber
• The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones
• The Man Who Ate too Much: The Life of James Beard, John Birdsall
• The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García, Laura Tillman
• Meals, Music and Muses: Recipes from my African American Kitchens, Alexander Smalis/Veronica Chambers
• Notes from a Young Black Chef, Kwame Onwuachi
• Omnivores Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods we Love and Need, Michael P. Hoffmann and Carrie Koplinka-Loehr
• Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, Lisa Donovan
• Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters, Dominique Crenn
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat
• Save me the Plums, Ruth Reichl
• Six California Kitchens, Sally Schmitt
• South Wind Through the Kitchen: Best of Elizabeth David, Elizabeth David
• Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life, Emily Thelin
• We Are What We Eat:  A Slow Food Manifesto, Alice Waters
• We Fed an Island, Jose Andres
• What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories, Laura Shapiro
• What We Eat When We Eat Alone, Deborah Madison
• Yes, Chef, Marcus Samuelsson
• Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen, Yasmin Khan