**Lifestyle - reading suggestions**

  * Untangling my chopsticks : a culinary sojourn in Kyoto - Riccardi, Victoria Abbott
  * Apricots on the Nile : a memoir with recipes - Collette Rossant
  * Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  * Pomegranate soup - Marsha Mehran (Iranian sisters who run a restaurant)
  * Food of love - Anthona Capella (Italian food romance)
  * The mistress of spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  * La cucina : a novel of rapture - Lily Prior (Sicilian Librarian Food Lover!)
  * The book of salt / Monique Truong (Vietnamese chef's memoir - she was the chef of Gertrude Stein 
    and Alice B Toklas) 
  * Madame Proust and the kosher kitchen / Kate Taylor (culinary biography of Marcel Proust's wife wonder if it mentions madeleines!)
  * Crescent - Diana Abu-Jaber (Iraqi/Lebanese American chefs and food) 
  * Love Takes You Home : a journey in 13 delicious meals. Julie Capaldo
  * Recipes from The Dump. Abigail Stone.
  * La Cucina : a Novel of Rapture. Lily Prior
  * The Foodtaster. Peter Elbling
  * The Family Frying Pan. Bryce Courtenay
  * The Legend of the Villa Della Luna. Jana Kolpen
  * Chile Death. Susan Albert
  * Fat Chance. Deborah Blumenthal
  * Five Quarters of the Orange. Joanne Harris
  * Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. Fannie Flagg
  * The Blue Corn Murders. Nancy Pickard
  * The Hotel Riviera. Elizabeth Adler.
  * The Death Merchant. Lee Goldberg.
  * Tart and Juicy: food stories from Australia.
  * Under a Tin-Grey Sari. Wayne Ashton.
  * Like Water for Chocolate. Laura Esquivel
 
**The non-fiction list**

  * Apricots on the Nile. Colette Rossant
  * Return to Paris: a memoir with recipes.Colette Rossant.
  * The Taste of Memory. Marion Halligan
  * The Really Stuffed Guide to Good Food.H.G. Nelson
  * The man who ate everything.Jeffrey Steingarten.
  * La Bonne Table. Ludwig Bemelmans.
  * Kitchen Confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly. Anthony Bourdain
  * A cook's tour: in search of the perfect meal. Anthony Bourdain.
  * Toast. Nigel Slater.
  * Out of the Frying Pan. Keith Floyd.
  * Sheer Bottled Bliss: my Margaret River Seachange. Ian Parmenter
  * I sang for my supper. Margaret Fulton.
  * The Perfectionist : Life and Death in Haute Cuisine. Bernard Chelminski
  * The Accidental Foodie. Neale Whitaker.
  * Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a restaurant critic in disguise. Ruth Reichl.

What about all the Diane Mott Davidson books - murder mysteries solved by a caterer with recipes 
included.

  * The Cereal murders
  * The Last suppers
  * The Main corpse
  * Prime cut
  * The Grilling season
  * Tough cookie
  * Sticks and Scones
  * Chopping Spree
  * Double shot and her latest
  * Dark tort