Here are a few of my favorite books on food, cooking, herbalism, nutrition and healing, in no particular order of preference.

Full Moon Feast:  Food and the Hunger for Connection — Jessica Prentice

Medicine Grove: A Shamanic Herbal — Loren Cruden

Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia — Patience Gray

Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes — Jennifer McLagan

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants– Robin Wall Kimmerer

Seven Herbs: Plants as Teachers — Matthew Wood

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats — Sally Fallon

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods — Sandor Ellix Katz