Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food by Ed BallsDefault Title (2024)

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What chef's first book was titled I'm just here for the food? ›

First published in 2002, Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award for best reference book. This revised and updated edition features fifteen brand-new recipes, along with everything that made the original a classic kitchen instruction manual.

Critics disagree about the exact way to define this genre, although in a nutshell a food memoir consists of a writer's experiences with food as told from his/her memories and imagination.

In the 10th century, Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq produced a book called Kitab Al-Tablikh (The Book Of Dishes); a couple of centuries later, Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi wrote another book by the same name.

Gordon Ramsay Quick and Delicious

Gordon's cookbook, Quick and Delicious, takes all his culinary experience from an illustrious career to create 100 recipes that take 30 minutes or less to cook, and all taste amazing.

Memoir comes from the French word mémoire, which means memory. A memoir is a nonfiction but subjective collection of narratives in which the author remembers experiences, emotions, and events from a certain period in their life.

A memoir (/ˈmɛm. wɑːr/; from French mémoire [me. mwaʁ], from Latin memoria 'memory, remembrance') is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual.

"Memoir" Definition

A memoir is a narrative, written from the perspective of the author, about an important part of their life. It's often conflated with autobiography, but there are a few important differences. An autobiography is also written from the author's perspective, but the narrative spans their entire life.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain, first published in 2000.

By then she had earned a name for herself, and in 1972, published her first book, The Edna Lewis Cookbook, which she co-authored with socialite Evangeline Peterson.

Most readers (and food lovers) wouldn't associate Anthony Bourdain with mystery and suspense books, but Bone in the Throat and his second crime novel, Gone Bamboo, deserve as much attention as his more popular works of nonfiction. Bone in the Throat, Bourdain's debut, was first published in 1995.

What was the name of Jamie Oliver's first restaurant? ›

In June 2008, Oliver launched a restaurant, Jamie's Italian, his first high street business venture, in Oxford, England.