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BOOK RIOT’S 2021 READ HARDER CHALLENGE - hosted by bookriot

Read a food memoir by an author of color
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Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

7 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction middle grade emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji

Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices

Chitrita Banerji

288 pages • 2007

nonfiction travel informative lighthearted slow-paced
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can by Ntozake Shange

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

Ntozake Shange

128 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction cookbook history memoir race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes by Ntozake Shange

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

Ntozake Shange

140 pages • 1998

nonfiction memoir informative fast-paced
Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho

Tastes Like War

Grace M. Cho

296 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking

Toni Tipton-Martin

320 pages • 2019

nonfiction cookbook informative lighthearted slow-paced
A Taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey

A Taste of India

Madhur Jaffrey

256 pages • 1985

nonfiction informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

264 pages • 2015

nonfiction food and drink history informative slow-paced
Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes by Maya Angelou

Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

Maya Angelou

240 pages • hardcover • 2004

nonfiction cookbook memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by Lyn Nguyen, Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning

Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream

Lyn Nguyen, Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning

224 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction cookbook food and drink memoir emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced