PrintWho's your favorite food writer?
Mine is Ruth Reichl. I never fully understood her talent as a writer until I read her memoirs - they're written in a style that I find powerfully honest.
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22 Comments:
Gael Greene
savvy at 9:50AM on 02/18/07
little Ed
norman at 12:41PM on 02/18/07
Tony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman, separately and together on Michael's blog.
Teachertalk at 12:49PM on 02/18/07
Tony Bourdain especially in A Cook's Tour.
JadedOne at 2:41PM on 02/18/07
What do you mean, exactly, by food writer? Those whose write commentary/gastronomic literature, cookbook writers, critics, culinary historians? I could name one as a favorite in each category, but to pick one over the other would be comparing apples to oranges to figs to kiwis.
BaHa at 2:44PM on 02/18/07
For pure reading enjoyment with the topic being "food", you can't beat:
Calvin "Bud" Trillin
Ruth Reichl
Jane & Michael Stern
Ed Levine
These are not in any order because I love reading them all.
toolminer at 3:43PM on 02/18/07
Anthony Bourdain . His books and TV shows are the best. He's not scared to say what he really thinks and I respect that kind of honesty.
jonfoxx at 5:35PM on 02/18/07
Jeffrey Steingarten. I read the "The Man Who Ate Everything" and "It Must've Been Something I Ate" when I was just starting to get passionate about my cooking. I think if nothing else those books encouraged me to be intrepid in my eating and cooking.
Husband at 6:54PM on 02/18/07
A second vote for Jeffrey Steingarten--unheeded enthusiasm bolstered by a mad-scientist devotion to technique and adventure. He elevates food to the highest of subjects and is funny at the same time. He makes you want to be as passionate and absurd.
Blake Royer at 7:54PM on 02/18/07
Jane and Michael Stern
Andrea Strong
Ed Levine
newbatgirl at 9:12PM on 02/18/07
Beard..
Kbear919 at 10:44PM on 02/18/07
BaHa - I didn't have any one category in mind when I wrote the question; I left it open for readers to interpret it as they saw fit. Take your pick, or tell us about them all!
kmalladi at 11:57PM on 02/18/07
Ruhlman, Steingarten, Bourdain, R.W. Apple, M.F.K. Fisher, Michael Pollan and Alan Davidson - I read/have read the above like I do all great literature - with anticipation and awe.
Livetotravel at 12:57PM on 02/19/07
Cookbook writer: Brooke Dojny. She writes on New England with wit and affection. And not one of her recipes have let me down (nor earned scorn from my Maine-born husband), even those that are tweaked and updated. Would follow her to the ends of the cookbook earth. I wish there were more books by Helen Radecka. Her fruit and nut book (not, I hasten to add, a health-food book) is a standby for me. For commentary/humor: Clement Freud. Erudite and hilarious. And, yes, a relation of *that* Freud. For curling up under a quilt: The Mrs Appleyard's Kitchen books.
I cannot read Ruth Reichl. I've tried, and find her way too emotionally self-indulgent.
Adore Calvin Trillin, and can recite large chunks of the Tummy Trilogy.
BaHa at 3:52PM on 02/19/07
Adam Kuban.
djacobs at 4:02PM on 02/19/07
Ruth Reichl, hands down.
dettling05 at 10:52PM on 02/19/07
calvin trillin. "the burnt part of anything is best." sez. it. all.
onthestereo at 11:14PM on 02/19/07
Robb Walsh of the HOUSTON PRESS
texhl at 12:13AM on 02/20/07
Favorite Foodblog writers:
Barbara Fisher of "Tigers and Strawberries"
Molly from "Orangette"
Lydia Walshin from "The Perfect Pantry"
DarBar at 5:59AM on 02/20/07
Ruth Reichl and Nigel Slater.
Amy Joe at 8:51AM on 02/20/07
Molly O'Neill. She introduced me to food writing that was heady and poetic. Before that, I thought all food writing was prosaic, prescriptive and dumbed-down like reading Girl Scout cookie recipes.
femmebot at 12:40PM on 02/20/07
Chuck Taggart. Check out his weblog at www.gumbopages.com
1stmakearoux at 2:48PM on 02/27/07