The Delicious AF Book Club

For the past year, Jennifer Cockrall and I dream up a welcoming and inclusive food-themed book club that virtually met monthly to read writers who have lots to say but have a difficult time getting heard. During that time, The Delicious AF Book Club looked like the world. Even though the book club won’t be continuing, here’s our ever-evolving list of reads to keep the work going:

• Notes From a Young Black Chef: A Memoir / Kwame Onwuachi
• In Bibi’s Kitchen / Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen
• Eat a Peach / David Chang
• To Asia, With Love / Hetty McKinnon
• My Ackee Tree / Suzanne Barr
• Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel
• tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine / Shane Chartrand and Jennifer Cockrall-King
• Fresh Off The Boat / Eddie Huang
• Black Food / Bryant Terry
• The Iraqi Cookbook/The Vegan Iraqi Cookbook / Lamees Ibrahim
• Climbing the Mango Trees / Madhur Jaffrey 
• Butter Honey Pig Bread: A Novel / Francesca Ekwuyasi
• Soul Food / Adrian E. Miller
• My Soul Looks Back / Jessica B. Harris
• Cook Real Hawai’i: A Cookbook / Sheldon Simeon
• Falastin / Sami Tamimi
• Where I Come From: Life Lesson from a Latino Chef / Aarón Sánchez
• Braiding Sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Palestinian Table / Reem Kassis
• The Cooking Gene & Rice / Michael Twitty
• Cuisine and Empire / Rachel Kaiden 
• Frying Plantain / Zalika Reid-Benta
• Black, White and The Grey / Mashama Bailey
• Dining In Paradise / Raquel Fox
• The Cuisine of Life
• Anything / Kim Thuy
• Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America / Gustavo Arellano
• Love, Loss and What We Ate / Padma Laksmi
• Palestine on a Plate: Memories From My Mother’s Kitchen / Joudie Kalla
• Pigtails ‘n’ Breadfruit / Austin Clark
• Jubilee / Toni Tipton-Martin
• The Measure of My Powers / Jackie Kai Ellis
• The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks / Toni Tipton-Martin
• The Last Baron / Omar Mouallem (documentary on CBC Gem)
• Yes, Chef: A Memoir / Marcus Samuelsson
• My Shanghai / Betty Liu
• Milk, Spice & Curry Leaves: Hill Country Recipes from the Heart of Sri Lanka/ Ruwanmali Samarakoon-Amunugama
• Donut King / Ted Ngoy (also a documentary on CBC Gem)
• You & I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connects Us and One Another / Chris Ying & MAD Dispatches V.1

Keep unlearning.