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Care and Feeding
Laurie Woolever
★★★★· Published 2025· 352 pages· read 2025
Bourdain's longtime assistant on the food world's hypermasculine underbelly, her own addictions and affairs, and clawing her way to sober. Candid, funny, and genuinely devastating.
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★ 5Search
Michelle Huneven
A church committee searching for a new minister, with recipes. Huneven makes small-group politics weirdly gripping and funny. Loved it.
★ 5Heartburn
Nora Ephron
A food writer's marriage falls apart while she's pregnant, told with jokes and recipes. Bitter, hilarious, and over far too fast.
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J. Ryan Stradal
Told through linked stories about food and the people orbiting one gifted chef. Warmer and cleverer than I expected.