Slow Books

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


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
  • 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
  • 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