Are you food obsessed? Do you always turn to the food section in the newspaper? Are you always found hidden amongst the cookbook section in a bookstore? And when you do buy a cookbook you don’t just skim it, do you? You devour it. Lucky for you, there is a lot to savor when it comes to food lit! With the long Labor Day weekend approaching, you’re bound to have some free time to feed your inner chef a little brain food. Here are 10 great food books we recommend.

1. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
2. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
3. Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford
4. A Homemade Life, Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenberg
5. Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky
6. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, by Ruth Reichl
7. French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
8. My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme
9. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, by Thomas McNamee
10. The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City, by David Lebovitz

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