📚 Food

Books with food on their catalogue record, first published between 1939 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject food in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 87,552 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fast Food Nation	Eric Schlosser	2001	43
	French Country Cooking (Cookery Library)	Elizabeth David	1951	30
	Panaderia y Reposteria para profesionales/Professional Baking	Wayne Gisslen	1985	29
	Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals	Michael Pollan	2006	28
	Food values of portions commonly used	Anna De Planter Bowes	1939	25
	Let's cook it right.	Adelle Davis	1947	21
	Let's eat right to keep fit	Adelle Davis	1954	20
	The science of food	P. M. Gaman	1977	18
	Food rules	Michael Pollan	2009	18
	The popcorn book	Tomie dePaola	1978	17
	Foods	Margaret McWilliams	1989	15
	French Women Don't Get Fat	Mireille Guiliano	2004	15
	Today is Monday	Eric Carle	1993	14
	Food in history	Reay Tannahill	1973	10
	Fat Land	Greg Critser	2003	10
	Introduction to food engineering	R. Paul Singh	1984	9
	Salt Sugar Fat	Michael Moss	2013	9
	Food microbiology	W. C. Frazier	1958	8
	Food Matters	Holly Bauer	2014	8
	Fundamentals of Meal Management	Margaret McWilliams	1978	7
	Food and Nutrition	Anita Tull	1983	7
	The Food Lab	J. Kenji López-Alt	2015	7
	The Science of Cooking	Joseph J. Provost	2016	7
	Glucose Revolution	Jessie Inchauspé	2022	7
	The technology of food preservation	Norman W. Desrosier	1959	6
	Who eats what?	Patricia Lauber	1994	6
	Cooking for Geeks	Jeff Potter	2010	6
	The chemical analysis of foods	David Pearson	1962	5
	Physical properties of plant and animal materials	Nuri N. Mohsenin	1968	5
	How to Eat	Nigella Lawson	1999	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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