Fiction, Memoir, and a Kids’ Book on our 2024 Bookshelf

Those who identify as food-obsessed readers have long lists of favorite food scenes in their lifetime reading lists. One of mine is the battlefield picnic at the Bastion Saint Gervais in Alexander Dumas’s Three Musketeers. Do you have one?

Here are three books we reviewed this year that show delight in food as a subject. Two include recipes.

You can tickle young readers’ curiosity about food and history with author Rachel Levin’s colorful Who Ate What? A Historical Guessing Game for Food Lovers. Read our review and check out an excerpt that happens to be a recipe!

We mostly review books by local authors, but our book reviewer, Kristina Sepetys, loved Ruth Reichl’s Paris Novel so much that she asked if she could write about this delightful semi-autobiographical bestseller. Read what she had to say.

Fans of the Lo Coco’s family restaurants will enjoy reading the uproarious back story to the eateries in Suzanne Lo Coco’s memoir, Secret Dough, and making seven recipes she includes. Here’s our review with a link to one of the recipes.