🍳 Cooking & Food · Japan
Best Cooking & Food Books from Japan
Food writing is one of the great minor literary traditions. Japan has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in cooking & food, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best cooking & food from Japan by editorial consensus.
#1
cooking-food
Food selection and preparation
Marion Deyoe Sweetman· 1943
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#2
cooking-food
Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures
Joe Tilden· 1907
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#3
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Thomas Jefferson's cook book
Kimball, Marie Goebel· 1938
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#4
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Food for the diabetic
Huddleson, Mary Pascoe Mrs.· 1923
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#5
cooking-food
Die Bedeutung der Salze als Nahrungsmittel
Hans Koeppe· 1896
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#6
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The market assistant
Thomas F. De Voe· 1866
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#7
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Special events
Joe Jeff Goldblatt· 1990
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#8
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Art of the Event
James C. Monroe· 2005
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#9
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Lost at Sea
A. A. Hoehling· 1984
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#10
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Monkey with a tool belt and the maniac muffins
Chris Monroe· 2016
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#11
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World of Warcraft
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel· 2016
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#12
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Amateur sugar maker
Noel Perrin· 1972
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#13
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Eating, drinking, and visiting in the South
Joe Gray Taylor· 1982
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#14
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Wintersweet
Tammy Donroe Inman· 2013
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#15
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At Home with Carolyne Roehm
Carolyne Roehm· 2000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#16
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The Lost Supper
Taras Grescoe· 2023
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#17
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Eat to live
Joel Fuhrman· 2011
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#18
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One recipe a hundred sauces
Linda Doeser· 2016
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#19
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Delicious pizza
Linda Doeser· 2007
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#20
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Creative slow-cooker meals
Cheryl Moeller· 2012
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#21
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The little boy cook
Joe Baxter Davis· 2012
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#22
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Dictionary of food ingredients
Robert S. Igoe· 1983
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#23
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Mucumber McGee and the Lunch Lady's Liver
Patrick Loehr· 2008
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#24
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Secrets of the Garden
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld· 1999
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#25
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The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs
Joel Salatin· 2016
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#26
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Undersea Predators
Carl Roessler· 1984
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#27
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The world on a plate
Joel Denker· 2003
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#28
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The Kitty Treats Cookbook
Michele Bledsoe· 1998
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#29
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Serving people with food allergies
Joel J. Schaefer· 2011
Library Journal
Editorial Score25/100
#30
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Food in the Civil War era
Helen Zoe Veit· 2014
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#31
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A magyar zsidó konyha
András Koerner· 2017
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#32
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Ŏrini yŏngyang yori
Kŭm-i Ch'oe· 2018
Library Journal
Editorial Score25/100
#33
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U.S. food expenditures, 1954-78
Manchester, Alden Coe· 1979
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#34
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Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
Roel Sterckx· 2011
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score25/100
#35
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Trait-Modified Oils in Foods
Frank T. Orthoefer· 2015
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
















