The interview that Cybele May gave on KCRW was pretty cool--you can tell she's a serious candy freak. And she does wax poetic on that blog about candy.

Everyone one of Colwin's books uses food as a backdrop, but a couple are non-fiction and deal strictly with recipes and entertaining.

I should probably ask my wife about the best food books, she's a trained chef (CAC in San Pablo, ACI in Flagstaff, Ecole de Savignac in Paris) and keeps pushing books at people.