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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. 

French Cookbooks

Cuisine Rapide

Pierre Franey & Bryan Miller, Random House, 1989

The French Chef Cookbook

Julia Child, Knopf, 1973

Kitchen Primer

Craig Claiborne, Knopf, 1969

French Country Cooking

Craig Claiborne, Penguin, 1951

Glorious French Food

James Peterson, Wiley, 2002

The Way to Cook

Julia Child, Knopf, 1989

Cooking in France

Pierre Franey & Richard Flaste, Knopf, 1994


French Food and Culture

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway, Scribner's, 1964

The Art of Eating

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

The Food of France

Waverley Root, Random House, 1992

Culture and Cuisine

Jean-Francois Revel, Doubleday, 1982

Bohemian Paris

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

The Paris Edition

Waverley Root, North Point, 1987

Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme the First Celebrity Chef

Ian Kelly, Walker, 2003

The Physiology of Taste

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


Other Cookbooks and Reads

with Gusto and Relish

Lord Westbury & Donald Downes, Andre Deutsch, 1957

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage, Bloomsbury, 2005

A Passion for Mushrooms

Antonio Carluccio, Salem House, 1989

Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails

Ted Haigh, Quarry, 2004

Heat

Bill Buford, Vantage, 2007

Cooking from New England

Jasper White, Harper, 1989

A Book of Mediterranean Food

Elizabeth David, Penguin, 1950

Ten Restaurants that Changed America

Paul Freedman, Norton, 2016

I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2009

Venus in the Kitchen or Love's Cookery Book

Pilaff Bey (Norman Douglas), Viking, 1953

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