Choice Cuts

A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

By Kurlansky, Mark

Publishers Summary:
This work was at least 3,000 years in the making as essays about food make your mouth water, your appetite build, and your appreciation for the art and history of cuisine grow by leaps and bounds. Mark Kurlansky, food historian and writer for Food and Wine magazine, comments about and introduces historical thoughts on everything from scrambled eggs to roast ribs of beef, souffles, and every category of food you can imagine. Some of the contributors include: Aristotle, Julia Child, James Beard, Gertrude Stein, and other famous authors, and historians. This enticing look at food is entertaining, amusing and fun.

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ISBN
978-1-59007-284-4
Publisher
New Millenium


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Library Journal

Reviewed on September 15, 2003

This anthology of food writing, read by Josephine Bailey and others, dishes up observations, prejudices, reminiscences, and recipes-from desserts to dormice. All of us eat and everyone has opinions about food. Celebrated writers like James Beard or M.F.K. Fisher are outnumbered by less likely foodies such as Plato, Virginia Woolf, and Pablo Neruda, whose essays are woven into chapters like "Eating Yo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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