15 Books By Chefs You'll Want To Read If You Have A Love For Cooking

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Overview

If you’re looking for books that combine rich food descriptions with a side of adventures in living, add these chef memoirs to your TBR.

Challenge Books

1

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

Ruth Reichl

2

Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat by Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas

Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat

Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas

3

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

Notes from a Young Black Chef

Kwame Onwuachi

4

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

Padma Lakshmi

5

My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

My Life in France

Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

6

Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen

Give a Girl a Knife

Amy Thielen

7

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by Erin French

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Erin French

8

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition)

Anthony Bourdain

9

Eat a Peach by David Chang, Gabe Ulla

Eat a Peach

David Chang, Gabe Ulla

10

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker

11

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

Molly Wizenberg

12

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Gabrielle Hamilton