Andy Raskin is the author of The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life (Penguin/Gotham Books, May 2009).
Geoff Dyer, Haruki Murakami, food-themed Japanese comic (manga) books, David Sedaris, Momofuku Ando, Cervantes, and a guy no one has ever heard of named Bill Herr.