Five Faves: Food-Centered Memoirs

Food-centered memoirs are a big hit with me.  Reading these memoirs -- either classics or newer books -- is what makes the Foodies Read Challenge so much fun for me each year.

Here is a list of five of my particular favorite food memoirs:

• Delights and Prejudices by James Beard (reviewed here)

• My Life in France by Julia Child (reviewed here)

• The Gastronomical Me by M. F. K. Fisher

• The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison

• Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling 

FIVE FAVES

There are times when a full-sized book list is just too much; when the Top 100, a Big Read, or all the Prize winners seem like too daunting an effort. That's when a short little list of books grouped by theme may be just the ticket.

Inspired by Nancy Pearl's "Companion Reads" chapter in Book Lust – themed clusters of books on subjects as diverse as Bigfoot and Vietnam – I decided to start occasionally posting lists of five books grouped by topic or theme. I call these posts my Five Faves.

Feel free to grab the button and play along. Use today's theme or come up with your own. If you post about it, please link back to here and leave the link to your post in a comment. If you want to participate but don't have a blog or don't feel like posting, please share your list in a comment.