Best Beach Reads
These must-reads range from a juicy chef tell-all to a serious look at sustainable seafood.
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Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
A smart investigation into how four wild fish—tuna, cod, sea bass and salmon—regularly end up on dinner plates, and whether they can be brought back from the brink of extinction.
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Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
The iconoclastic chef-author of Kitchen Confidential offers this collection of intelligent rants and raves on everything from vegetarians to star chefs like his hero, Fergus Henderson.
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The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The author spent a day at New York City's Kitchen Arts & Letters store to research her novel about two sisters—one a dot-com genius, the other a bookworm.
Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs
A road trip in search of eight of Samuel Clemens's most beloved (and bizarre) regional American dishes.
97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman
A look into the culinary habits of five immigrant families living in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
