Recommended
Cookbooks:
- Almost Vegetarian: A Primer for Cooks Who Are Eating Vegetarian Most of the Time, Chicken & Fish Some of the Time, & Altogether Well All of the Time
by Diana Shaw
- The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life
by Dawn Jackson Blatner
- Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes by Mark Bittman
- How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
Memoirs:
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

You should check out Alton Brown’s “I’m Just Here for the Food”. Good stuff.