Food Literature

Food for Thought will force you to challenge your concepts of motivation, understanding, and morality, thus inspiring a more appreciative approach to life’s journey. The stories within will help you to focus on enjoying what you have, who you are, and who you can be, rather than what you believe you desire. Food for Thought is a little gem of knowledge and wonderment that effortlessly immerses and challenges you to think about the type of person you are choosing to be, and the impact it is having on the world and the people around you.

From the dark and decadent mind of Em Dehaney come eight tales of sea foam secrets and sweet treats. Nothing is quite what it seems, but everything is delicious. This is Food of the Gods.

Get the Monkey Off Your Back! Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you the practical, step-by-step advice you need to transition to the air-only diet. An acclaimed pioneer in the field of Airitarianism, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD has dedicated his life to freeing food-eaters from slavery to addictive caloric substances.

For the Nameless Restaurant, once a discreet hole-in-the-wall meant for a cast of supernatural regulars, the increasing levels of background magic has brought with it that most dreadful of locusts—new customers. The staff of the Nameless Restaurant are finding the influx of new customers—both mortal and magical—to be a challenge. They're reaching a breaking point, and something has to give. The only question is, will it be Mo Meng's rules on magic or the restaurant itself?

Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past 30 years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy vivid evocations of people and places. Asher puts wine in its context by taking the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with the carafe at his elbow.

What if your kitchen cabinets were bare? No food. Could you steal from the church to feed your family? When Missy, the pastor’s wife, discovers missing food from the church’s food pantry, she asks Holly to help find out who did it so the church can help them. For Holly, it brings back memories, times she’d rather forget, of when her mother was drinking and using, leaving her to fend for herself, often with little or no food. Missy had helped her then, and this was a way to repay her, but can Holly find who did it time to help?

Food porn can be addictive, but is it worth murder? When her food photographer is murdered, the police ask Cassie's husband, ex-Mafia man, Al, to help. Al’s ways of solving murder doesn't always follow police procedurals. Murder and Food Porn is cozy mystery that leaves you with a smile on your face! As always, there are plenty of dogs, mouth-watering food, and recipes. This is the eighth book in the popular Northwest Cozy Mystery Series by two-time USA Today best-selling author Dianne Harman.

Soul Food is a multi-voice performance of a short story called Fillet of Souls by D. Glenn Millar, in which strange, disembodied beings share a meal at a restaurant on the edge of galaxy. The menu? It's to die for.

Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker: literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M. F. K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink.

Gray is already bigger than all the other sharks in his clan, or shiver. He can’t stop growing, and when his hunger gets him into trouble, he’s banished from the reef. Luckily his best friend Barkley comes with him…but their hunt for food forces them to journey deep into the dangerous Big Blue. Then Gray and Barkley accidentally swim into Goblin Shiver territory. They have no choice but to join the shiver. They’ll help fight against the rival sharks of Razor Shiver in return for training, protection, and food. But who can Gray and Barkley trust?

Liddy Crawford, best friend of food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell, is getting married. The wedding is the talk of the town in Bar Harbor, Maine, including snide gossip about the age gap between the bride and her groom, local lawyer Sonny Lipton. But the cruelty of the comments is nothing compared to the nasty wedding-cake baker, Liddy's quarrelsome cousin Lisa. So when the belligerent baker is found facedown in a three-tier cake, the victim of a poisoned slice, there are more suspects in town than names on the guest list.

When Hayley's idol, cookbook author and TV personality Penelope Janice, invites her to participate in a Fourth of July celebrity cook-off at her seaside estate in Seal Harbor, Maine, Hayley couldn't be more flattered. She just hopes she can measure up. With a who's who of famous chefs whipping up their signature dishes, this holiday weekend has all the ingredients for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience. Instead, Hayley gets food poisoning her first night and thinks she overhears two people cooking up a murder plot.

Fran is hungry, but Dad has to make dinner. What will she do as she waits? This book focuses on the long vowel digraph oo.

“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty audiobook about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac’s The Human Comedy.

我们一生要遇到很多人，要吃很多顿饭，我们会因为一道美食，想起一个人，也会因为一个人，想起爱的味道。美食与爱，是我们生活中最温暖的所在。……我們一生要遇到很多人，要吃很多頓飯，我們會因為一道美食，想起一個人，也會因為一個人，想起愛的味道。美食與愛，是我們生活中最溫暖的所在。

Dive into the lively town of Hoopville with Junk Food Baller, a heartwarming tale of a young basketball player with big dreams and a big appetite for junk food. Junk Food Baller loves basketball more than anything, but his snack habits are shooting his dreams in the foot. As the school basketball tryouts approach, he sticks to his sugary routine—until his performance on the court starts to suffer. Can Junk Food Baller change his ways in time to make the team?

The Bon-Appetempting Pizza Bake-Off has the small town of Branson, Georgia, buzzing—not least its organizer, Southern Style's food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin. But right before the finals one of the celebrity judges falls ill, and to Tiffany's horror, the magazine replaces him with none other than handsome TV star and restaurateur Bartholomew Driscoll. She's convinced he's only accepted the job to get revenge. She fully expects Driscoll will find a way to ruin the contest—but she definitely doesn't expect to trip over his dead body backstage!

Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin has the best job in the world: she gets to eat for a living. At least, she hopes she has a job. Her trial period at Southern Style magazine is up—and rumors are swirling that management is making a choice between Tiffany and a rival columnist: the ambitious Jenny Lee Plumm. Former chef Tiffany knows she has a battle on her hands…but she didn't realize it was to the death!

It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, goodwill toward men don’t seem to extend to the restaurant biz. Hayley has been assigned to interview Edel Waugh, chef/owner of Key West’s hottest new restaurant. But off the record, Edel reveals someone’s sabotaging her kitchen and asks Hayley to investigate.

The annual Key West Loves Literature seminar is drawing the biggest names in food writing from all over the country, and Haley Snow is there to catch a few fresh morsels of insider gossip. Superstar restaurant critic Jonah Barrows has already ruffled a few foodie feathers with his recent tell-all memoir, and as keynote speaker, he promises more of the same jaw-dropping honesty.