Food biographies

Does anyone have suggestions for good foodie biographies? I have recently enjoyed Nigel Slater's Toast, and Ruth Reichl's books.

Voyage Gastronomique by Lillian Langseth-Christensen. A by-gone era of luxury and gastronomy. Simply fascinating.

If you can't find the book, sample some of her contributions to Gourmet magazine from the late 1950s.

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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, by Judith Jones was most enjoyable. Jones was Julia Child's editor.

Thanks for the suggestions - I'll definately hunt around for those titles.

how about the alice b toklas cookbook for recipes along with stories from another time. I love this book.

I enjoyed French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle and if wine falls into the 'foodie' category then I would also suggest Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage by Dorothy J. Gaiter

I love CandyFreak- the author travels all over America in search of people who still make almost forgotten candies.

Anything by or about M.F.K. Fisher is generally great. On my TBR pile is Poet of the Appetites.

I've got (actually two copies, inherited one from my mother) Bloody Delicious, the story of Joan Campbell, the long-time food editor of Australian Vogue. Fascinating. And with recipes.

I very much enjoyed Toast. It's like Angela's Ashes, one of those childhood memoirs where the story is told from the kid's perspective, resulting in a certain amount of humour when the adult narrator understands what's happening better than the child narrator.

I just finished Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. It wasn't quite as broad in its scope as the title makes it sound, but it was a really interesting read. It made me hungry for potatoes, too!

I just saw Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times in my feed.. it sounds very good, has anyone here read it?

I haven't read that one. I finished Salt: A World History this month and thought it was great.