Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
| AUTHOR | Kurlansky, Mark; Kurlansky, Mark |
| PUBLISHER | Penguin Books (10/26/2004) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic photographs, and Kurlansky's own original drawings, this food anthology is a must-have for any serious lover of food. "The most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology." -Saveur
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ISBN-13:
9780142004937
ISBN-10:
0142004936
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
496
Carton Quantity:
16
Product Dimensions:
5.56 x 1.11 x 8.54 inches
Weight:
1.03 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Cooking | Essays & Narratives
Cooking | History
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
641.013
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Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic photographs, and Kurlansky's own original drawings, this food anthology is a must-have for any serious lover of food. "The most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology." -Saveur
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