Research Guides: Culinary Arts: Culinary Biographies/Histories

Books about famous chefs, critics, and restauranteurs

The Culinarians by David S. Shields
Call Number: TX649 .A1 S54 2017
ISBN: 9780226406893
Publication Date: 2017-10-26
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
Call Number: TX649 .S226 A3 2012
ISBN: 9780385342605
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
Dearie by Bob Spitz
Call Number: B CHILD
ISBN: 9780307272225
Publication Date: 2012-08-07
At Home on the Range by Margaret Yardley Potter; Elizabeth Gilbert (Introduction by)
Call Number: TX 715 .P8714 2012
ISBN: 9781936365890
Publication Date: 2012-04-17
Life, on the Line by Grant Achatz; Nick Kokonas
Call Number: TX649 .A25 A3 2011
ISBN: 9781592406012
Publication Date: 2011-03-03
The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
Call Number: TX649 .R8 A3 2006
ISBN: 067003763X
Publication Date: 2006-05-18
No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain
Call Number: TX652.9.B69 2007
ISBN: 1596914475
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Call Number: TX649.H345 A3 2011
ISBN: 140006872X
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
Call Number: TX911.3.M27 M49 2006
ISBN: 0060742755
Publication Date: 2006-10-03

More biographies/histories

The Founders of American Cuisine by Harry Haff
Call Number: REF TX715 .H1238 2011
ISBN: 0786458690
Publication Date: 2011-02-08

When searching by subject in the Library online catalog, try using the suggested headings:

Celebrity Chefs
Cooks - Biography
Cooks - California - Biography
Cooks--United States--Biography
Cooking, American
Cooking, French
Cooking, Japanese
Cooking, Italian
Cooking, American--History
Cooking--History
Cooking--United States
Food-History
Food Habits-History
Gastronomy--History
Women Cooks -- Biography
Women Food Writers--Biography

Foods That Changed History by Christopher Martin Cumo
Call Number: TX349 .C86 2015
ISBN: 9781440835360
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Culinary Biographies by Alice Arndt
Call Number: REF TX649 .A1 C85 2006
ISBN: 0971832218
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Apicius by Sally Grainger; Dan Shadrake (Illustrator)
Call Number: REF TX713 .A67 2006
ISBN: 1903018137
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Eating History by Andrew F. Smith
Call Number: TX715 .S651315 2009
ISBN: 0231140932
Publication Date: 2009-09-18
Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World by Lilia Zaouali; Charles Perry (Foreword by); M B Debevoise (Translator)
Call Number: TX725 .A65 Z3613 2007
ISBN: 9780520247833
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Balzac's Omelette by Anka Muhlstein
Call Number: PQ2178 .M8413 2011
ISBN: 9781590514733
Publication Date: 2011-10-11
Fermented Foods and Beverages of the World by Jyoti Prakash Tamang
Call Number: REF TP371.44 .F468 2010
ISBN: 9781420094954
Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Encyclopedia of Kitchen History by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: REF TX653 .S57 2004
ISBN: 1579583806
Publication Date: 2004-09-27
My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
Call Number: TX714 .R4438 2015
ISBN: 9781400069989
Publication Date: 2015-09-29

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Ferran by Colman Andrews
Call Number: TX910.5 .A25 A53 2010
ISBN: 9781592405725
Publication Date: 2010-10-07
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee; R. W. Apple (Foreword by); Thomas Mcnamee
Call Number: TX910.5 .W38 M36 2007
ISBN: 1594201153
Publication Date: 2007-03-22
Sirio by Sirio Maccioni; Peter J. Elliot
Call Number: TX945.5 .L39 M33 2004
ISBN: 0471204560
Publication Date: 2004-06-04
The Perfectionist by Rudolph Chelminski
Call Number: TX649.L65 C44 2005
ISBN: 1592401074
Publication Date: 2005-05-19
The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher; Joan Reardon
Call Number: TX633 .F515 2004
ISBN: 0764542613
Publication Date: 2004-03-05

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