Hannah Messinger, local food writer, photographer, stylist and cook, shares her top food books available from Nashville’s own Parnassus Books.
All of these titles will be available for purchase on Parnassus’ mobile truck, “Peggy” as she tours around Nashville this Spring. You will notice that I have (perhaps woefully) left out some big hitters such as Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, MFK Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Alton Brown. But that’s because this isn’t a list of the most important culinary works in the whole world and it’s not even a list of my favorite. No, these are the books that made me the cook and writer I am today, the ones I can consider “formative.” They are dear to me and I hope that once you read them, they will be dear to you, too. Drop me a note and tell me what you think of them at HMMessinger@gmail.com.