We are often asked what French cookbooks are good to use, and what are some good reads on French culture and food. We are also asked, in general, about the history of eating, drinking, and dining. Here is a selection of our suggestions, which we think might be useful or give delight.

Pierre Franey & Bryan Miller, Random House, 1989

Julia Child, Knopf, 1973

Craig Claiborne, Knopf, 1969

Craig Claiborne, Penguin, 1951

James Peterson, Wiley, 2002

Julia Child, Knopf, 1989

Pierre Franey & Richard Flaste, Knopf, 1994

Ernest Hemingway, Scribner's, 1964

M. F. K. Fisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

Waverley Root, Random House, 1992

Jean-Francois Revel, Doubleday, 1982

Dan Franck, trans. Cynthia Hope Liebow, Grove, 2003

Waverley Root, North Point, 1987

Ian Kelly, Walker, 2003

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, trans. M. F. K. Fisher, Knopf, 1971

Lord Westbury & Donald Downes, Andre Deutsch, 1957

Tom Standage, Bloomsbury, 2005

Antonio Carluccio, Salem House, 1989

Ted Haigh, Quarry, 2004

Bill Buford, Vantage, 2007

Jasper White, Harper, 1989

Elizabeth David, Penguin, 1950

Paul Freedman, Norton, 2016

Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2009

Pilaff Bey (Norman Douglas), Viking, 1953
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