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Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
Victoria James
★★★★· Published 2020· 336 pages· read 2021
The memoir of America's youngest sommelier — the grind, the sexism, the wine. Fast and juicy.
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Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Zauner — the musician behind Japanese Breakfast — wrote this memoir after losing her Korean mother to cancer. It’s about grief, yes, but mostly it’s about food as love language, and what happens when the person who fed you is gone. Multiple friends have finished it in a single sitting, then called their mothers. You will too.
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Ruth Reichl
Reichl reviewing New York restaurants in elaborate disguises so no one would recognize the critic. The food writing alone will make you starving.
★ 5Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi
Kwame Onwuachi's memoir of clawing his way into the fine-dining world. Ambitious and unflinching about race in restaurants.