Hungry for Food Lit! 10 Foodista Food Reads
By: Melissa Peterman
Published: August 27, 2009

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.

Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry, by Kathleen Flinn
Heat- an Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford
A Homemade Life, Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenberg
Salt, a World History, by Mark Kurlansky
Tender at the Bone, Growing up at the Table, by Ruth Reichl
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, by Thomas McNamee
My Sweet Life in Paris, by David Lebovitz