Whether you’re cooking turkey for 20 or opting out of Thanksgiving entirely, books about food are always in season. Frank and Gwen talk about their favorite cookbooks and chef memoirs with NYPL’s resident foodie, Jeanne Hodesh, and offer some family recipes of their very own.

Check out our live show on Dec. 4! Food memoirs:

• The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
• Memories of a Lost Egypt by Colette Rossant
• Blood, Bones, & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
• Cooking for Mr. Latte by Amanda Hesser
• The audiobooks of Anthony Bourdain
• Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichel

More recommendations:

• The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen (and the Moosewood archives at Cornell University Library)
• Fannie Farmer cookbooks
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Salt Fat Acid Heat

And few more books that Jeanne wanted to mention:

• My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris
• Consider the Oyster and Long Ago in France by MFK Fisher
• My Life in France byJulia Child