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In this collection of essays, New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser showcases the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists in the magazine. Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a collection of essays from The New York Times, collects the 26 best stories and recipes to accompany them.

Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn't prepared to navigate. Poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate. Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, Patricia Marx, John Burnham Schwartz, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, and Heidi Julavits, among others.