No matter where you are, a meal can make you feel at home. Suresh Doss, host of CBC’s culinary show Locals Welcome, shares the cookbooks he keeps in his kitchen, which have helped fuel his lifelong passion. Plus, writer and journalist Phillip Dwight Morgan talks about his mission to read a new poem to his baby daughter everyday.

Books discussed on this week's show include:

Handmade: Stories of Strength Shared Through Recipes from the Women of Sri Lanka by Nesa and Roberts Liezer

Salt Fat Acid Heat” by Samin Nosrat

The Joy of Cooking” by Irma Rombauer

Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking by Naoko Takei Moore and Kyle Connaughton

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Is food the closest thing to teleportation?