Food Memoirs

This will be a never ending, always changing list of books on food memoirs.  These are not necessarily recommendations, just a list, some of the books I have read and some I have not.  Please feel free to send some recommendations my way, as the search is always continuing!  Don't forget when you build up your collection to support your local independent booksellers!
Here it goes:


52 Loaves: one man's relentless pursuit of truth, meaning, and a perfect crust by William Alexander
97 Orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one New York tenement by Jane Ziegelman
The Accidental Connoisseur: an irreverent journey though the wine world by Lawrence Osborne
A Cook's Tour: global adventures in extreme cuisines by Anthony Bourdain
Acquired tastes: on the trail of the world's most sought-after delicacies by Massimo Francesco Marcone
Adventures in Eating: an anthropological experience of dining around the world by
Adventures on the Wine Route: a wine buyer's tour of France by Kermit Lynch
The African Kitchen: a day in the life of a safari chef by Josie Stow
The Agony of the Leaves: the ecstasy of my life with tea by Helen Gustafson
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
Al Dente: the adventures of a gastronomic in Italy by William Black
Alice, Let's Eat: further adventures of a happy eater by Calvin Trillin
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution by Thomas McNamee
All The Presidents' Pastries: twenty-five years in the White House, a memoir by Roland Mesnier
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Always Fresh: the story of Tim Hortons by the man who created a Canadian empire by Ron Joyce
Amarcord, Marcella Remembers: the story of a woman who started out to teach science in Italy, but ended up teaching America how to cook Italian by Marcella Hazan
The Amateur Gourmet: how to shop, chop and table hop like a pro (almost) by Adam D. Roberts
American Pie: slices of life (and pie) from America's backroads by Pascale LeDraoulec
American Terroir: savoring the flavors of our woods, waters and fields by Rowan Jacobsen
Among Friends by M.F.K. Fisher
Amore and Ameretti: a tale of love and food in Tuscany by Victoria Cosford
An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver
Aphrodite: a memoir of the senses by Isabel Allende
Appetite for life: the biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch
The Apprentice: my life in the kitchen by Jacques Pepin
Are You Really Going to Eat That? Reflections of a culinary thrill seaker by Robb Walsh
Around the World in 80 Dinners: the ultimate culinary adventure by Cheryl Alters Jamison
The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
As Always, Julia: the letters of Julia Child and Alvis DeVoto by Joan Reardon
As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher
At Grandmother's Table: women write about food, life, and the enduring bond between grandmothers and grandaughters
At Grandmothers Knee by Faye Porter
Backstage With Julia: my years with Julia Child by Nancy Verde Barr
Baked-Off!: memoirs of a Pillsbury bake-off junkie by Steve Grieger
Baking as Biography: a life in recipes by Diane Tye
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: on becoming a chef at the Culinary Institute of America by Jonathan Dixon
Behind Bars: the straight-up tales of a big-city bartender by Ty Wenzel
Bento Box in the Heartland: my Japanese girlhood in whitebread America by Linda Furiya
Best Food Writing (yearly collection)
The Best Thing I ever Tasted: the secret of food by Sallie Tisdale
Between Bites: memoirs of a hungry hedonist by James Villas
Between Meals: an appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling
Between Two Fires: intimate writings on life, love, food & flavor by Laura Esquivel
Big Appetite: my Southern-fried search for the meaning of life by Sam McLeod
Bitter Almonds: recollections and recipes from a Sicilian girlhood by Mary Taylor Simeti
The Bizarre Truth: culinary misadventures around the globe by Andrew Zimmern
Blood, Bones, and Butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
The Blueberry years: a memoir of farm and family by Jim Minick
Boozehound: on the trail of the rare, the obscure, and the overrated in spirits by Jason Wilson
Bottomfeeder: a seafood lover's journey to the end of the food chain by Taras Grescoe
Bread and Chocolate: my food life in & around San Francisco by Fran Gage
Breaking Bread: recipes and stories from immigrant kitchens by Lynne Christy Anderson
Born Round by Frank Bruni
The Bucolic Plague: how two Manhattanites became gentlemen farmers by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the building of an empire by James W. Mclamore
Burgundy Stars: a year in the life of a great French restaurant by William Echikson
Burnt Bread and Chutney: growing up between cultures, a memoir of an Indian Jewish childhood by Carmit Delman
The Butcher and the Vegetetarian: one woman's romp through ta wolrd of men, meat, and moral crisis by Tara Austen Weaver
Cakewalk by Kate Moses
Candy and me (a Love Story) by Hilary Liftin
Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America by Steve Almond
The Cheese chronicles: a journey though the making and selling of cheese in America, from field to farm to table by Liz Thorpe
Cheesemonger: a life on the wedge by Gordon Edgar
Chef's story: 27 chefs talk about what got them into the kitchen
A Chefs Tale: a memoir of food, France, and America by Pierre Franey
Cherries in Winter: my family's recipes for hope in hard times by Suzan Colon
Choice Cuts: a savory selection of food writing Cleaving: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession by Julie Powell
Citizen Coors: a grand family saga of business, politics and beer by Dan Baum
Climbing the Mango Trees: a memoir of a childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
Cleaving: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession by Julie Powell
Comfort Food for Breakups: the memoir of a hungry girl by Marusya Bociurkiw
Comfort me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
Confections of a Closet Master Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Confessions of a Carb Queen: the lies you tell others & the lies you tell yourself: a memoir by Susan Blech
Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
Consuming Passions: a food obsessed life by Michael Lee West
Cooked: from the streets to the stove, from cocaine to foie gras by Jeff Henderson
Cooking and Screaming by Adreinne Kane
Cooking dirty: a story of life, sex, love and death in the kitchen by Jason Sheehan
Cooking for Kings: the life of Antonin Careme: the first celebrity chef by Ian Kelly
Cookoff: recipe fever in America by Amy Sutherland
Cooking for Mr. Latte: a food lovers courtship by Amanda Hesser
Corked by Kathryn Borel
Cosmopolitan: a bartender's life by Toby Cecchini
Crazy in the Kitchen: food, feuds, and forgiveness in an Italian family by Louise DeSalvo
Crete on the half Shell: a story about an island, good friends and food by Byron Ayanoglu
Dark and Light: the story of the Guinness family by Derek Wilson
Daughter of Heaven: a memoir with earthly recipes by Leslie Li
Day of Honey: a memoir of food, love, and war by Annia Ciezadlo
Death by Pad Thai: and other unforgettable meals by Douglas Bauer
Devil in the Kitchen: sex, pain, madness and the making of a great chef by Marco Pierre White
The Devil's Picninc: around the world in pursuit of forbidden fruit by Taras Grescoe
The Dinner Diaries: raising whole wheat kids ina white bread world by Betsy Block
Dinner Party Disasters: True Stories of Culinary Catastrophe by Annaliese Soros
Dirty Dishes: a restauranteur's story of passion, pain, and pasta by Pino Luongo
The Dirty Life: on farming, food, and love by Kristen Kimball
Dirty Sugar Cookies: culinary observations, questionable taste by Ayun Halliday
Domesticity: a gastronomic interpretation of love by Bob Shacochis
Don't Try This at Home: culinary catastrophes from the world's greatest chefs by Andrew Friedman
Dubious Honors by M.F.K. Fisher
Eat Me: the food philosophy of Kenny Shopsin by Kenny Shopsin
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents edited by Matt Mcallester
Eat my Globe: one year to go everywhere and eat everything by Simon Majumdar
Eating by Jason Epstein
Eating as I go: scenes from America and abroad by Doris Friedensohn
Eating My Words: an appetite for life by Mimi Sheraton
Eat my Words: reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote by Janet Theophano
Eat, Memory: great writers at the table a collection of essays from the New York Times by Amanda Hesser
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything I ate: a year in the life of my mouth by Tucker Shaw
An Extravagant Hunger: the passionate years of M.F.K Fisher by Anne Zimmerman
Extremely Pale Rose: a very French adventure by Jamie Ivey
Fair Shares for All: a memoir of family and food by John Haney
Far Flung and well Fed: the food writing of R.W. Apple, JR by R.W. Apple
Farm City: the education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter
Fat Girl: a true story by Judith Moore
The Feast Nearby: how I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering and eating locally (all on $40 a week) by Robin Mather
Feeding a Yen: savoring local specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin
Feeding Frenzy by Stuart Stevens
Ferran: the inside story of El Bulli and the man who reinvented food by Colman Andrews
Field Days: a year of farming, eating, and drinking wine in California by Jonah Raskin
Food: a taste of the road by Richard Sterling (a collection)
Fork it Over: the intrepid adventures of a professional eater by Alan Richman
Four Kitchens: my life behind the burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris by Lauren Shockey
The Fourth Star: dispatches from inside daniel Boulud's celebrated restaurant by Leslie Brenner
Fragrant rice: my continuing love affair with Bali by Janet De Neefe
French Lessons: Adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew by Peter Mayle
Fried Butter by Abe Opincar
Forklore: recipes and tales from an American bistro by Ellen Yin
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: adventures in the world of Chinese food by Jennifer Lee
From Here You Can't see Paris: seasons of a French village and its restaurant by Michael Sanders
Garlic And Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
A Garlic Testament: seasons on a small New Mexico farm by Stanley Crawford
Gastronaut: adventures in food for the romantic, the foolhardy and the brave by Stefan Gates
The Gastronomical Me by M. F. K. Fisher
The Gastronomy of Marriage: a memoir of food and love by Michelle Maisto
Ginger and Ganesh: adventures in Indian cooking, culture, and love by Nani Power
Going With the Grain: a wandering bread lover takes a bite out of life by Susan Seligson
Gordon Ramsey by Neil Simpson
Growing a Farmer: how I learned to live off the land by Kurt Timmermeister 
The Gumbo Tales: finding a place at the New Orleans table by Sarah Roahen
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: a lifetime of memories with recipes by Maya Angelou
Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: an entertaining life (with recipes) by Julia Reed
Harlot's Sauce: a memoir of food, family, love, loss, and Greece by Patricia Volonakis Davis
Harvest: a year in the life of an organic farmer by Nicola Smith
Havana Salsa: stories and recipes by Viviana Carballo
Hay Fever: how chasing a dream on a Vermont farm changed my life by Angela Miller
Heat by Bill Bufford
Heirloom: notes from an accidental tomato farmer by Tim Stark
Here Let us Feast: a book of banquets by M.F.K. Fisher
Her Fork in the Road: women celebrate food and travel by Lisa S. Bach (a collection)
Hidden Kitchens: stories, recipes and more from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters by Nikki Silva
Hollywood Dish! recipes, tips, & tales of a Hollywood caterer by Nick Grippo
Home Cooking: a writer in the kitchen by Laurie Colwin
A Homemade Life: stories and recipes from my kitchen table by Molly Wizenberg
Hometown Appetites: the story of Clementine Paddleford, the forgotten food writer who chronicled how America ate by Kelly Alexander
How I Learned to Cook: culinary educations from the world's greatest chefs edited by Kimberly Witherspoon
How to Cook a Dragon: living, loving, and eating in China by Linda Furiya
How To Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
How To Eat a Small Country: a family's pursuit of happiness, one meal at a time by Amy Finley
Hugh Fearlessly Eats it All: dispatches from the gastronomic frontline by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay
The Hunger: a memoir of an accidental chef by John Delucie
Hungry Monkey: a food-loving father's quest to raise an adventurous eater by Matthew Amster-Burton
I loved, I lost, I Made Spaghetti: a memoir of good food and bad boyfriends by Giulia Melucci
In Buddhas Kitchen: cooking, being cooked, and other adventures in a meditation center by Kimberly Snow
Indulgence: around the world in search of chocolate by Paul Richardson
I Never Forget a Meal: an indulgent reminiscence by Michael Tucker
Insatiable: tales from a life of delicious excess by Gael Greene
I was Never Here and This Never Happened: tasty bits and spicy tales from my life by Dorinda Hafner
It must Have been Something I ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
Julie and Julia: my year of cooking dangerously by Julie Powell
Keeping the Feast: one couple's story of love, food, and healing in Italy by Paula Butturini
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Kitchen and the Cook by Nicolas Freeling
The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
Laughing With my Mouth Full: tales from a Gulf Islands kitchen by Pam Freir
Life, Death & Bialys: a father/son baking story by Dylan Schaffer
Lilla's Feast: one woman's true story of love and war in the Orient by Frances Osborne
Living in a Foreign Language: a memoir of food, wine, and love in Italy by Michael Tucker
Long ago in France: the years in Dijon by M. F. K. Fisher
Love by the Glass: tasting notes from a marriage by Dorothy J. Gaiter
Lunch in Paris: a love story with recipes by Elizabeth Bard
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Medium Raw by Anthony Bordain
M.F.K. Fisher and Me: a memoir of food and friendship by Jeannette Ferrary
Miriam's Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Monsoon Diary: a memoir with recipes by Shoba Narayan
More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Music, Food, and Love: a memoir with recipes by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow
My Last Supper: 50 great chefs and their final meals by Melanie Dunea
My Life From Scratch: a journey of starting over, one cake at a time by Gesine Bullock-Prado
My life in France by Julia Child
On a Dollar a Day: one couple's unlikely adventures in eating in America by Christopher Greenslate
On the Line by Eric Ripert
On Rue Tatin: living and coking in a French town by Susan Herrmann Loomis
Pass the Polenta: and other writings from the kitchen, with recipes by Teresa Lust
The Perfectionist: a food-obsessed life by Rudolph Chelminski
Plenty: one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally by Alisa Smith
The Reach of a Chef: beyond the kitchen by Michael Ruhlman
Risotto with Nettles: a memoir with food by Anna Del Conte
Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson
The Saucier's Apprentice: one long strange trip through the great cooking schools of Europe by Bob Spitz
The Seasoning of a Chef: my journey from Diner to Ducasse and beyond by Doug Psaltis
Serve it Forth by M.F.K. Fisher
Service Included: four-star secrets of an eavesdropping waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
Sex, Death and Oysters: a half shell lover's wold tour by Robb Walsh
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: love, laughter, and tears in Paris at the world's most famous cooking school by Kathleen Flinn
Siren's Feast, An Edible Odyssey by Nancy Mehagian
The Soul of a Chef: the journey toward perfection by Michael Ruhlman
The Spice Necklace: my adventures in Caribbean cooking, eating, and island life by Ann Vanderhoof
Spiced: a pastry Chef's true stories by Dalia Jurgensen
Spoon Fed: how eight cooks saved my life by Kim Severson
Starting from Scratch: memoirs of a wandering cook by Patty Kirk
Steak: one man's search for the world's tastiest piece of beef by Mark Schatker
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Stuffed: adventures of a restaurant family by Patricia Volk
The Sweet Life in Paris: delicious adventures in the world's most glorious-and perplexing city by David Lebovitz
Sweet-Sour Memoir of eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
Talking With my Mouth Full: crab cakes, bundt cakes, and other kitchen stories by Bonny Wolf
Tastes Like Cuba by Eduardo Machado
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
The Tenth Muse: my life in food by Judith Jones
Terra Madre by Carlo Petrini
Toast by Nigel Slater
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
The Town that Food Saved: how one community found vitality in local food by Ben Hewitt
Trail of Crumbs: hunger, love and the search for home by Kim Sunee
Under the Table: saucy tales from culinary school by Katherine Darling
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
The Ungarnished Truth: a cooking contest memoir by Ellie Mathews
Untangling my Chopsticks: a culinary Sojourn in Kyoto by Victoria Abbott Riccardi
Waiting by Debra Ginsberg
White House Chef: eleven years, two presidents, one kitchen by Walter Scheib
With Bold Knife and Fork by M.F.K. Fisher
The Woman Who Ate Chinatown: a San Francisco Odyssey by Shirley Fong-Torres
Wrestling With Gravy: a Life, with food by Jonathan Reynolds
Women Who Eat: a new generation on the glory of food by Leslie Miller