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African-American

Pinner, Patty. Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories. Ten Speed Press, 2006. Author provides African American family recipes while telling tales of her mother, grandmother, aunts and cousins and the small town in which they live.

Chinese (see also Asia/China)

Dunlop, Fuchsia. Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China. W. W. Norton & Co., 2008. After attending various culinary programs in China, author writes about the country and the food.

Yue, Guo and Farrow, Clare. Music, Food and Love: A Memoir with Recipes. Piatkus Books, 2009. Growing up in Beijing listening to music and enjoying food cooked at home, Yue, who now lives in the West, shares recipes from his past along with pieces of his Chinese heritage.

French (see also Europe/France)

Caws, Mary Ann. Proven?al Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France. Pegasus, 2008.

Child, Julia. My Life in France. 2009.

Franey, Pierre. A Chef's Tale: A Memoir of Food, France and America. Knopf, 1994.

Haller, James. Vie De France: Sharing Food, Friendship, and a Kitchen in the Loire Valley. Berkley Trade, 2003. Ex-chef and restaurateur and his friends celebrate his 60th birthday in a 17th century house in France, cooking meals and enjoying wine for a month.

LeBorgne, Michel. No Crying in the Kitchen: A Memoir of a Teaching Chef. The Public Press, 2009.

Rosenblum, Mort. A Goose in Toulouse and Other Culinary Adventures in France. North Point Press, 2000. Examines France's culinary contributions, intertwined with love, hate, cultural clashes and politics.

General

Abu-Jaber, Diana. The Language of Baklava.2006. Growing up partly in Jordan.

Apple, Jr., R.W..  Far-Flung and Well Fed. 2009.

Barr, Nancy Verde. Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child. Wiley, 2008. Working with culinary legend for 24 years.

Bemelmans, Ludwig. Hotel Bemelmans.2005. Behind-the-scenes account of a great hotel by the author of the Madeline books who worked at the Ritz.

Bociurkiw, Marusya. Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007. Canadian-Ukrainian lesbian daughter of a concentration camp survivor uses family recipes to tell the stories of her life and memories of her family?s past.

Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. 2007.

Buford, Bill.. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. 2007.

Candappa, Rohan. Picklehead: From Ceylon to Suburbia: A Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself. Ebury Press, 2007. Son of Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother on his family?s immigrant experience in England, and memories tied to his parents? cooking.

Ciezadlo, Annia. Day of Honey, Day of Onions: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War. Free Press, 2010. Author writes about the increased significance of food and cooking during times of war and struggle.

Clark, Gillian. Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef's Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood, and the Family Meal. Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. After leaving her job to pursue culinary school, Clark?s divorce left her raising two daughters while attempting to make a living as a chef.

Cooper, Barry W. Silver Spoons, Mad Baboons, and Other Tales of Tea. Cooper Publishing, 2008. Author describes forty years of learning about, tasting and creating teas.

Davis, Patricia Volonakis. Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece. Harper Davis Publishing, 2008. An Italian-American woman finds both hardship and happiness in her husband?s home country of Greece.

Esposito, Sergio. Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy. Broadway, 2009. An Italian immigrant and long-time lover of wines opens up an Italian wine shop in America.

Ferrary, Jeannette. Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer. John Daniel & Company Books, 2004. Food writer's story of how she became interested in cooking and the memories of her profession as she provides brief bios of other chefs, and her own recipes.

Fussell, Betty. My Kitchen Wars. North Point Press, 1999. Food historian and writer on her childhood, marriage and family.

Haney, John. Fair Shares for All: A Memoir of Family and Food. Random House, 2009. Author discusses growing up in England, tells family stories and observes how food is indicative of social class.

Jithoo, Urmila. From the Table of My Memory: A Memoir With Recipes. Double Storey Books, 2008. Stories of author' s travels, alongside recipes.

Jones, Judith. The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food. Anchor, 2008. A Knopf editor's experiences with foods, chefs, and cookbooks she has helped bring into being.

Lauren, Jenny. Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope. Washington Square Press, 2005. Ralph Lauren?s niece recalls how the pressures of her beautiful family contributed to her development of eating disorders.

Leith, William. The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict. Gotham, 2005. An interview with the creator of the Atkins diet leads food-obsessed journalist to gaining control over his eating disorder.

Maisto, Michelle. The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love. Random House, 2009. Author describes the year before her marriage and includes recipes from both her own Italian heritage and her husband?s Chinese background.

Mallet, Gina. Last Chance to Eat: Finding Taste in an Era of Fast Food. W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. A witty and vividly remembered culinary memoir about how eating once was, and still can be, a joy.

Opincar, Abe. Fried Butter: A Food Memoir. Soho Press, 2004. Author?s unusual ability to recall specific sensory material ties him to the food present in his memories.

Villas, James. Between Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist. Wiley, 2003. By the food and wine editor of Town and Country for 27 years.

Indian (see also Asia/India)

Narayan, Shoba. Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. Author on her childhood and family in India, and of the influence food had in her home and her memories.

Italian (see also Europe/Italy)

Esposito, Sergio. Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy. Broadway, 2009.

Ferrante, Maria Pignatelli and Danford, Natalie. Puglia: A Culinary Memoir. Oronzo Editions, 2008. Histories of Puglia and of author's own life plus nearly 300 Puglian recipes.

Tucker, Michael. Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy. Grove Press, 2008. American couple, both TV actors, go to Italy and thoroughly enjoy the cuisine, then come home and attempt to share their new love of food with friends on Hollywood diets.