CHOICE CUTS
by KURLANSKY, Mark
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/price-clipped dj
- ISBN 10
- 0345457102
- ISBN 13
- 9780345457103
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Inscribed by the editor and illustrator on the title-page, " Bon Apetite [sic] / forever Cape Cod / Mark Kurlansky ".More than 200 selections, from Cato to Cab Calloway.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230010
- Title
- CHOICE CUTS
- Author
- KURLANSKY, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- price-clipped dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345457102
- ISBN 13
- 9780345457103
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 2002 )
- Keywords
- food writing gourmands gourmets
Terms of Sale
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
About the Seller
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- First Edition
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