The Ten Best Books About Food of 2025

The introduction of the Japanese television cooking show “Iron Chef” may have immortalized the words of 18th-century French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Beyond Kitchen Stadium, though, those words have always been the marching orders for food writers. Here’s a crop of books from 2025 in which the writers tell you a lot about who they are by talking about their food.