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