Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Seven notable (non-cookbook) books for foodies

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Kathryn Williams came up with seven notable (non-cookbook) books for foodies. One book she tagged for the food historian:
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, by Luke Barr

All hail the trinity of modern cuisine. Fisher’s grandnephew draws from his great-aunt’s journals and letters to reconstruct the serendipitous 1970 get-together of the time’s greatest culinary innovators, a meeting that would incontrovertibly change the course of American cooking. Like eavesdropping on a salon where palate finally shook pretentiousness.
Read about another book on the list.

Learn more about Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste.

--Marshal Zeringue