Look no further for a great guide to food lit!

I am very, very excited: the first book that I helped with, as series editor for the Real Stories series of nonfiction reading guides (published by ABC-CLIO), came out yesterday!

The book in question is Melissa Brackney Stoeger's Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction, and you'll excuse my parental-ish pride if I say it's nothing short of fantastic. Stoeger not only explores (and helps categorize into similar nonfiction food "genres") a TON of popular and current nonfiction titles about food, she provides gorgeous appendix materials about cooking shows, food blogs, and food book awards. If you work in a library and get questions from patrons with an interest in this subject, this is a great resource for you. (For example: Tired of combing through all the cookbooks in your stacks to find the more narrative foodie selections? Melissa has done all that work for you!)

If anyone out there is going to ALA Midwinter, I'm sure they'll have copies in the ABC-CLIO/Libraries Unlimited (#2021) booth for you to look at, although I warn you--reading it will make you hungry (for both books and food)!

I wish I could go pass out advertising flyers at my local food co-op (foodies galore!) for it--I just might, actually.*

*I'm totally biased, but I also love the cover.

Comments

[lesbrarian]

You're right, that is a great cover. It's a lot better than another cover I can think of in that series.

I love how, in the first substantive line of this review, you home in on the appendix.

Congratulations to you and to Melissa.

[Venta]

Congratulations to both of you!! Very exciting. My sister, a huge foodie and reader, will love this for her birthday!

[Citizen Reader]

Lesbrarian,
Well, I liked your cover too, but I am a sucker for red.
Everyone? You do know the Lesbrarian wrote a fantastic book on women's nonfiction? Check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Nonfiction-Reading-Interests-Stories/dp/1591586585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359081495&sr=8-1&keywords=jessica+zellers

Thanks for the congrats!

Venta!
Thanks so much. It is a really lovely book--I'm sure it would give your sister many happy hours of tracking down great food nonfiction, fiction, blogs, movies, etc. Although, as noted, don't give her the book if she doesn't want to get hungry every time she reads it. :)