Bookworm/Foodie

by Tara

I love to read, and I love to cook. One of my favorite authors that combines the two very nicely is Adriana Trigiani. This Italian-American author has written more than a dozen books, including some incredible novels, a cookbook, and a life-lessons book. Her novels are about big Italian families, just like her real life, and she incorporates Italian and Southern recipes into each of them. It's hard to pick a favorite novel, so I'll tell you that the Big Stone Gap series (four books) helped me escape to fiction when I was going through the hardest experience of my life. 

(Photo from adrianatrigiani.com.)

In addition to printing delicious recipes in her novels, Trigiani shares some of her family recipes on her author site, visit her Favorite Recipes page on her author site.

Do you have a favorite foodie author?

Comments

[Sharon]

I love Ruth Reichl. Her books (especially Garlic and Sapphires) always make me so hungry.

[carrie @plums in the icebox]

my examples aren't really foodie authors, i guess, but have you read blood bones and butter by gabrielle hamilton? i just did and it's AMAZING. she's a chef but she's also trained i fiction writing, so it's one of the best memoirs i've read in ages, and it's allllllll about food. i also love claudia roden, whose cookbooks are like encyclopedias and history books and family albums all rolled into one.

i also have a littler series on my food blog where i interview writers. nobody that's super famous, mainly people in the independent literature community. BUT if you're interested in seeing their favorite recipes you can do so here! http://plumsintheicebox.typepad.com/plums-in-the-icebox/writers-eat/