Editor's Favorite Food Books
By Phillip Rhodes November 16, 2010
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These picks will keep foodies coming back to the bookshelves for seconds.
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Our Favorite Food Books
If you are looking for a gift for a food-loving, literary hound, call off the hunt.
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Every Day in Tuscany by Frances Mayes
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The third time is just as lucky as the first two for Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
Price: $25
Shop: Random House
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National Geographic's Food Journeys of a Lifetime
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Think of Food Journeys of a Lifetime as 500 places to see and taste before you die. Full of the take-you-there photography for which National Geographic is famous, the book covers every conceivable gustatory delight--from fabled chefs' fare to humble street foods.
Price: $40
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Food Rules by Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan, the high priest of eating well, distills collective wisdom into 64 commonsense food rules. Our favorite: "Don't eat cereal that changes the color of the milk."
Price: $11
Shop: Penguin
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The Book of Fungi by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans
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This coffee-table book-cum-kitchen reference covers edibles familiar (morels, truffles) and wildly exotic (ethereal Mexican Indigo Milkcaps, curious Wood Cauliflowers). It includes those not to eat, as well. Life-size photos capture every fascinating fungal detail.
Price: $55
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Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
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Paul Greenberg--the reporter who helped get Chilean sea bass off many menus--brings his insight as a passionate sport fisher to this unsettling account of four species (salmon, cod, bass, and tuna) we may be fishing to extinction.
Price: $26
Shop: Amazon.com
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The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
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Ben Hewitt chronicles the "agrepreneurs"—farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, who built a local economy around small-scale food production, and helped reinvigorate a Vermont town.
Price: $25
Shop: Rodale