FAVORITE FOOD BOOKS

• Jack Bishop: Pasta e Verdura* and Vegetables Every Day*

• Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour
  

• Laurie Colwin: Home Cooking* and More Home Cooking*

• David Kamp: The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
  

• Barbara Kingsolver (with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver): Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

• David Lebovitz: The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments
  

• Susan Marks: Finding Betty Crocker

• Michael Pollen: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  

• Julie Powell: Julie & Julia

• Ruth Reichl: Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me With Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires
  

• Adam D. Roberts: The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table-Hop Like a Pro
  

• Laura Shapiro: Perfection Salad
  

• Nigel Slater: The Kitchen Diaries and Toast
  

• Jeffrey Steingarten: The Man Who Ate Everything and It Must Have Been Something I Ate
  

• Jane and Michael Stern: Two for the Road and Roadfood
  

• Calvin Trillin: The Tummy Trilogy* (American Fried, Alice, Let’s Eat, and Third Helpings), Feeding a Yen, and Travels With Alice

• Patricia Volk: Stuffed
  

• Carole Walter: Great Cookies*

• Molly Wizenberg: A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table
  

* = most favorite