For the Curious — Further Reading
Each cuisine's own authorities; a starting shelf.
- Fuchsia Dunlop, Land of Fish and Rice (2016) and Invitation to a Banquet (2023) — China.
- Madhur Jaffrey, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973) — India.
- Claudia Roden, A Book of Middle Eastern Food (1968) — the Middle East.
- Paula Wolfert, Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco (1973) — North Africa.
- Diana Kennedy, The Cuisines of Mexico (1972) — Mexico.
- Edna Lewis, The Taste of Country Cooking (1976) — the American South.
- Jessica B. Harris, High on the Hog (2011), and Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene (2017) — the African diaspora.
- Clifford A. Wright, A Mediterranean Feast (1999) — the Mediterranean.
- Naomi Duguid & Jeffrey Alford, Hot Sour Salty Sweet (2000) — Southeast Asia.