Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Gastronomy"

We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
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The Best American Food Writing 2019 (The Best American Series)
The Best American Food Writing 2022
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai'i [A Cookbook]
The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
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The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained in More Than 100 Essential Recipes
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
Salt: A World History
The Art of Eating
The Man Who Ate Everything
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Taste: My Life Through Food
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2020 James Beard Award Winners
13 books — 1 voter

Dirt by Bill BufordWine and War by Don KladstrupBefore the Baguette by Jim ChevallierChampagne by Don KladstrupA Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut
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50 books — 3 voters
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2020 IACP Award Winners
20 books — 1 voter

The Way to Cook by Julia ChildCheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking by Cheryl DayZoë Bakes Cakes by Zoë FrançoisAnd for Mains by Brady NicolaThe Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists by America's Test Kitchen Kids
2022 IACP Award Winners
18 books — 2 voters
Six California Kitchens by Sally SchmittThe Perfect Loaf by Maurizio LeoArabiyya by Reem Assil(Serious) New Cook by Leah Su QuirogaOn the Himalayan Trail by Romy Gill
2023 IACP Award Winners
18 books — 1 voter


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Honoré de Balzac
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.
Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

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