More Food Related Comfort Reads

Sharing my recommendation for Pat Conroy's Cookbook at Facebook prompted two friends to recommend writings by two more of my favorite food writers who write about so much more than food.

If these names are new to you, fix yourself a cup of tea or coffee, a warm pastry, find your coziest reading nook and give 'em a try!  

Ruth Reichl

From Wikipedia:

Is American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and has been co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth, and editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. She has won six James Beard Foundation Awards.

• Mmmmm: A Feastiary (cookbook), (1972)
• Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (memoir) (1998)
• Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (memoir) (2001)
• Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (memoir) (2005)^[8]
• The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes (2006)
• Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way (2009)
• Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen (2009)
• For You, Mom. Finally. (2010; first published under the title Not Becoming My Mother)
• Delicious! (novel) (2014)
• My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life (2015)
• Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (2019)
• The Paris Novel (2024)^[16]

Laurie Colwin

From Wikipedia:

Was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes.^[1] She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet magazine. In 2012, the James Beard Foundation inducted her into its Cookbook Hall of Fame

Novels

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• Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object (Viking, 1975)
• Happy All the Time (Knopf, 1978)
• Family Happiness (Knopf, 1982)
• Goodbye Without Leaving (Poseidon Press, 1990)
• A Big Storm Knocked It Over (HarperCollins, 1993)

Storiesedit

• Passion and Affect (Viking, 1974) aka Dangerous French Mistress and Other Stories
• The Lone Pilgrim (Knopf, 1981)
• Another Marvelous Thing (Knopf, 1988)

Food writing

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• Home Cooking (Knopf, 1988)
• More Home Cooking (HarperCollins, 1993)

Happy Reading and Bon Appétit!

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