Cooking the Books
Recipe Collections & Literature Inspired by Favorite Authors, Art, History & Fiction

(With Companion Fiction)

Read It and Eat:  A Month-By-Month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus
Sarah Gardner
028.9 GAR

Best Food Writing 2010
Holly Hughes, Editor
641.013 BES

Choice Cuts:  A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
Mark Kurlansky, Editor & Illustrator
641.013 CHO

A Reader’s Cookbook 
Judith Choate
641.5 CHO

Country Cooking:  2,152 Recipes from the Readers of Harrowsmith Magazine
641.5 COU

Kafka’s Soup:  A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
Mark Crick
641.5 CRI

The Tenth Muse:  My Life in Food
Judith Jones
641.5 JON

Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook & Kitchen Reader
Jan Karon & Martha McIntosh, Editor
641.5 KAR

Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Cookbook
Debbie Macomber
641.5 MAC

The Cat Who…Cookbook:  Over 200 Recipes and Menus Inspired by Lilian Jackson Braun’s Beloved Bestselling Mysteries
Julie Murphy & Sally Abney Stempinski
641.5 MUR

Recipe for Murder:  Frightfully Good Food Inspired by Fiction
Esterelle Payany
641.5 PAY
The Kitchen Diaries:  A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater
641.5 SLA

The Book Lover’s Cookbook:  Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages That Feature Them
Shaunda Kennedy Wenger
641.5 WEN

Writers in the Kitchen:  Children’s Book Authors Share Memories of Their Favorite Recipes
Compiled by Tricia Gardella
641.5 WRI

The Pat Conroy Cookbook:  Recipes of My Life
Pat Conroy
641.59 CON

The Jane Austen Cookbook
Maggie Black & Deirdre Le Faye
641.5941 BLA

Dining with William Shakespeare
Madge Lorwin
641.5942 LOR

Van Gogh’s Table at the Auberge Ravoux
Alexandra Leaf
641.5944 LEA

The Impressionist’s Table:  A Celebration of Regional French Food Through the Palettes of the Great Impressionists
Pamela Todd
641.5944 TOD

Da Vinci’s Kitchen:  A Secret History of Italian Cuisine
Dave DeWitt
641.5945 DEW

The Philosopher’s Kitchen:  Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook
Francine Segan
641.59495 SEG

Recipe for a Book Club:  A Monthly Guide for Hosting Your Own Reading Group:  Menus & Recipes, Featured Authors, Suggested Readings, and Topical Questions
Mary O’Hare and Rose Storey
642.4 OHA

Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes
Carl Warner
779.36 WAR

Eat My Words:  Reading Women’s Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Janet Theophano
808.06641 THE

Will Write for Food:  The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More
Dianne Jacob
808.066641 JAC

A Feast of Words:  For Lovers of Food and Fiction
Anna Shapiro
809.39355 SHA

Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts: Delightful Treats and Games from Classic Children’s Books
Jane Brocket
809.89282 BRO

Cakewalk:  A Memoir
Kate Moses
813.6 MOS

Taste:  A Literary History
Denise Gigante
820.93559 GIG

Murder on the Menu
Peter Haining, Editor
823.0872 MUR

Tea with Jane Austen
Kim Wilson
823.7 WIL

Aphrodite:  A Memoir of the Senses
Isabel Allende
863 ALL

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