Local Food

Eat Like a Local: Oklahoma City by Emily Fincher offers the inside scoop on food in Oklahoma City. Culinary tourism is an import aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and its culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

Take a culinary journey through the heart of Italy with this book on Umbrian typical recipes. This region is home to some of the most authentic and delicious dishes in the country, and this book showcases the best of the best.

50 Things to Know About Cooking for One, by Beth Christian, offers an approach to cooking for yourself. Most books on cooking for one will tell you to make large meals on the weekends and freeze them. Although there's nothing wrong with that, most singletons aren’t fond of spending hours in the kitchen and defrosting meals that don’t retain their freshness. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, if a meal is not flash-frozen or vacuum-sealed, ice crystals form and damage the flavor. The longer food sits, it blends in different ways, and flavors can change.