Books like Death of a kitchen diva by Lee Hollis

Anthony Bourdain tells the candid, behind‑the‑pan stories of his rise from dishwasher to celebrated chef, mixing culinary insight with personal anecdotes.

In 1973 North Carolina, a college student begins maintenance work at Joyland, an amusement park haunted by an unsolved murder, and finds himself entangled in a chilling mystery that threatens his life.

A detective must untangle a baffling murder case in which an amnesiac doctor discovers his pivotal alibi, while the convicted killer’s wrongful trial leaves the truth hidden and the danger still looming.

A chilling crime mystery set in a small Southern town

An amnesiac on Harris, a detective in Lewis, and a girl in Edinburgh pursue the truth behind a bludgeoned corpse and a mysterious map called Coffin Road, weaving a tense Scottish crime thriller.

A cozy mystery set in a Virginia small town where a stay‑at‑home mother‑turned scrapbooker uncovers a murder while gathering evidence in her scrapbook.

When a former journalist settles back into his hometown of Promise Falls, New York, a hidden family secret and a series of brutal killings force him to confront the town’s dark past and his own doubts.

In the town of Kindred, the Cackleberry Club cafe prepares for Halloween, but a series of murders turns the community upside down. Suspicion falls on a town secret, and detective Suzanne must untangle the clues to catch a killer before another victim is found.

Food can embody our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how do we first come to it? How do the cookbooks we read shape us? Can cooking be a tool for connection in the kitchen and outside of it? In these essays thirteen writers consider the subjects of cooking and eating and how they shape our lives, and the possibilities and limitations the kitchen poses. Rachel Roddy traces an alternative personal history through the cookers in her life; Rebecca May Johnson considers the radical potential of finger food; Ruby Tandoh discovers other definitions of sweetness through the work of writer Doreen Fernandez; Yemisí Aríbisálà remembers a love affair in which food failed as a language; and Julia Turshen considers food’s ties to community. A collection to savour and inspire, In the Kitchen brings together thirteen contemporary writers whose work brilliantly explores food, capturing their reflections on their experiences in the kitchen and beyond.

When private investigator Leonid McGill is hired to solve a murder he once declined, he must confront his own past while uncovering the dark secrets of an old‑money New York family and a missing heiress.

It is a wonderful, simple cookbook written by Flora mae Hunter who lived and worked on the plantation. Very interesting andfull of untapped history.