The most popular food writing books of 2020

Food writing is for reading, not cooking from. Essays, memoirs and histories explore what we eat and why it matters: a grandmother's kitchen, a restaurant's back room, the journey of a spice. These are warm, hungry books that make you see dinner differently. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

Cover of Tiny Moons

Tiny Moons

Nina Mingya Powles

Published 2020

92 pages

Cover of Rebel Chef In Search of What Matters

Rebel Chef In Search of What Matters

Emma Brockes, Dominique Crenn

2020 · 2021 edition

256 pages

Cover of Everything Is Under Control

Everything Is Under Control

Phyllis Grant

2020 · 2022 edition

256 pages

Cover of This Will Make It Taste Good

This Will Make It Taste Good

Vivian Howard

Published 2020

288 pages

Cover of American Cheese

American Cheese

Joe Berkowitz

Published 2020

297 pages

Cover of Milk Street

Milk Street

Christopher Kimball

Published 2020

352 pages

Cover of Women in the Kitchen

Women in the Kitchen

Anne Willan

Published 2020

320 pages

Cover of Let Them Eat Pancakes

Let Them Eat Pancakes

Craig Carlson

Published 2020

272 pages

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Big Macs & Burgundy

Vanessa Price, Adam Laukhuf

Published 2020

240 pages

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Unvarnished

Eric Alperin, Deborah Stoll

Published 2020

318 pages

Cover of Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

Candace Rose Rardon

Published 2020

144 pages

Cover of Fermentation as Metaphor

Fermentation as Metaphor

Sandor Ellix Katz

Published 2020

128 pages

Cover of The World Eats Here

The World Eats Here

John Wang, Storm Garner

Published 2020

272 pages

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Foolproof Fish

America's Test Kitchen

Published 2020

384 pages

Cover of 100 Techniques

100 Techniques

America's Test Kitchen

Published 2020

448 pages

Cover of Wine, Unfiltered Buying, Drinking, and Sharing Natural Wine

Wine, Unfiltered Buying, Drinking, and Sharing Natural Wine

Katherine Clary, Sebastian Curi

Published 2020

176 pages

Cover of All Stirred Up

All Stirred Up

Laura Kumin

Published 2020

336 pages

Cover of Shake Strain Done

Shake Strain Done

J. M. Hirsch

Published 2020

224 pages

Cover of School Lunch Unpacking Our Shared Stories

School Lunch Unpacking Our Shared Stories

Lucy Schaeffer

Published 2020

224 pages

Cover of Stuff Every Cheese Lover Should Know

Stuff Every Cheese Lover Should Know

Alexandra Jones

Published 2020

144 pages

Cover of A Blissful Feast Culinary Adventures in Italy's Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche

A Blissful Feast Culinary Adventures in Italy's Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche

Teresa Lust

Published 2020

304 pages

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Towpath

Laura Jackson, Lori De Mori

Published 2020

280 pages

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200 under 20g Net Carbs

Lindsay Boyers

Published 2020

256 pages

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Rhubarb Rhubarb

Jo Thompson, Mary Jane Paterson

Published 2020

143 pages

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