[ShawtyCat]

There are actual books about food that aren't cookbooks or history books? Ah geez....now my spending at Barnes and Noble is going to skyrocket. Im hastily scribbling down the titles everyone has mentioned to add to my wish list. Which BTW is starting to look like a kids list to Santa Claus.

Thanks

Jodi

[Isa]

Originally posted by ShawtyCat
Im hastily scribbling down the titles everyone has mentioned to add to my wish list. Which BTW is starting to look like a kids list to Santa Claus.

Thanks

Jodi

Welcome to the club Jodi!

[Rachel]

The South Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban. A detective story set in Barcelona where the detective is also a gourmet chef. There is a whole series of Carvahlo (as the detective is called) and in each one there is an amzing range of food to be read about and recipes to be copied (he gives enough detail). One of the funniest ones is when Carvhalo has to go Madrid and he is NOT happy about the food on offer there. There's great rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid, sort of like Milan and Rome.
All the Carvahlo series is available in English.

[Isa]

It haven't started reading it it yet but it looked so good I couldn't resist it:



The Discovery of Chocolate
James Runcie


In The Discovery of Chocolate, a young Spaniard sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortez and the Conquistadors, propelled by his love's declaration that she will not marry him until he returns with a special treasure that no man or woman has ever before received. During his travels, however, he falls in love with a native woman who teaches him the secrets of the most delicious potion he has ever tasted: a chocolate drink. Soon our hero discovers that the chocolate elixir has given him the gift of immortality.

The magical and adventurous tale captures the spirit of Paris during the Revolution, Vienna during the early 1900s, Victorian England, and modern America. With delightful appearances by Montezuma, the Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas, it detail one man's fervent quest for love, understanding—and chocolate.

[judy]

I have just picked up a book by Catherine Davidson called The Priest Fainted. It is a sweet gentle book on ' one woman's modern day odyssey through Greece'.
A must for greek food lovers I could not put it down.