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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History Paperback - 2004
by Mark Kurlansky
Award-winning food writer Mark Kurlansky serves up a true smorgasbord of "choice cuts" by the world's most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the ages. From Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria to Pablo Neruda on French fries and M.F.K. Fisher on gingerbread, "Choice Cuts" offers more than 200 selections--all enhanced by Kurlansky's original drawings.
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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, Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food.
“The most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology.” –Saveur
Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.
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FOOD, LIKE SEX, IS A WRITER'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
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- Title Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
- Author Mark Kurlansky
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date October 26, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780142004937 / 0142004936
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 1.11 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 2.82 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Cookery, Food habits
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.5
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