Nonfiction about food(besides Hungry.)

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I've just finished Hungry and though I didn't especially care for it, though I enjoyed some parts, it's made me remember how much I love nonfiction about food.

I'd appreciate any recommendations on the subject. Anything from memoirs to the food culture of a particular country, the history of a particular food or anything in between.

TIA

Also Cod by Mark Kurlansky

How not to die

Pie Fidelity by Pete Brown - all about various traditionally British foods
The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman - how reading about food in various books helped her recover from an eating disorder
The Greedy Queen by Annie Gray - what Queen Victoria ate
Around Britain By Cake by Caroline Taggart - as the title says!!

Food in History -- by Reay Tannahill.
Fascinating reading, especially on very early foods.

There’s a book called I think it’s A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down which is mostly about biscuits.

Ooh a book about biscuits!!!

I've been given Scoff by Pen Vogler which is, apparently "a history of food and class in Britain" but I've not read it yet.

Two memoirs I love: Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton plus Elisabeth Luard's Family Life, an account of her raising her family in Spain & France in the 60s & 70s and forging her path as a food writer. With recipes! I reread it all the time. Proper comfort read.

Another vote for Ruth Reichl's books here.

Anything by MFK Fisher.

Colette Rossant's Apricots on the Nile and Return to Paris are memoirs about her childhood in Egypt and early adulthood moving to France - they’re slim books but bursting with utterly mouthwatering descriptions of food.

The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes is very funny.

Just remembered another couple of 'anthropological'-type books about food that I loved, though they’re quite old now; written in the 1980s but still fascinating - Much Depends on Dinner and The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser.

Now’s a good time to buy ‘The Christmas Chronicles’ by Nigel Slater - it’ll likely be a lot cheaper than it is in the run-up to Christmas. A journal-cum-recipe book-cum-ode to the wonders of nature in winter, with so much loveliness in it (if Nigel’s writing is to your liking...).

@Terpsichore , I second MFK Fisher. With Bold Knife and Fork, for one. Among Friends is autobiographical, interesting in various ways, very foodish.

Thank you all so much. I'm looking forward to reading these.

Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger is beautiful.

I've just added to my to-read list, Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler.
And now I'll be adding some of the other suggestions here!

I came on to say Much Depends on Dinner too.
And I think you can read Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat and Feast as books, not cookbooks; they’re so much about the context in which we cook and eat.

All of these others sound wonderful too.

Cheesemongers history of the British Isles

I can highly recommend Stanley Gucci’s ‘Taste’ - really good read!

Also Eat A Peach by David Chang and seconds to Kitchen Confidential.

Hope you find something you enjoy, Hungry is on list!