I love reading under any circumstances, but with the writers' strike likely to roll into next year, I'm going to be needing book recommendations more than ever. So before we flip the calendar to 2008, I wanted to ask you all about your favorite books of 2007. One of my favorites: Will Allison's What You Have Left, a book I picked up almost by accident at my local library and ended up devouring Read more

All month, Yum has been posting some great food writing in the site's summer reading series. For this week's Buzzworthy challenge, I wanted to put Buzz readers to the test to see what other drool-worthy food books you had on your shelves. Here are the parameters: Fiction and non-fiction are both OK, but no cookbooks — though books that include recipes within their chapters are certainly Read more

The 100 mile diet is not fiction for author Barbara Kingsolver, as she and her family decided to live off the land and buy only locally grown food for an entire year. Lucky for us, she recorded those 365 days in her latest book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Blending the art of the memoir with journalistic investigation, Kingsolver chronicles her family's move away from the industrial-food Read more