Best food writing 2015 / edited by Holly Hughes.

ISBN:

9780738218649

Title:

Author:

Hughes, Holly.

Edition:

First Da Capo Press edition.

Physical Description:

301 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Way We Eat Now -- The Perfect Beast, from Outside / Rowan Jacobsen -- Growing a $30 Million Egg, from Food & Wine / Emily Kaiser Thelin -- OMFG! It's the PSL! from Seattle Met / Allecia Vermillion -- Maverick Wine Guru Tim Hanni Rethinks the Pour, from the Sacramento Bee / Chris Macias -- Kids These Days, from San Francisco Magazine / Sara Deseran -- How to Get People to Cook More? Get Eaters to Complain Less, from the Washington Post / Tamar Haspel -- Cooking's Not for Everyone, from Edible San Francisco / Molly Watson -- The Restaurant Biz -- Dinner Lab Hopes to Build the World's First Data-Driven Restaurant. But Is That a Good Thing? from LA Weekly / Besha Rodell -- At Your Service? from Fool / Oliver Strand -- Coding and Decoding Dinner, from The Oxford American / Todd Kliman -- Waste Not, Want Not (and Pass the Fish Skin), from the New York Times / Pete Wells -- The Last Supper, from Esquire / Tom Junod -- Someone's in the Kitchen --

Contents note continued: No Chef in America Cooks Dinner Quite Like Philip Foss, from Eater / Ryan Sutton -- The Meat Prophet of Peru, from Roads & Kingdoms / Nicholas Gill -- In Search of the Perfect Taco, from the New York Times T Magazine / Jeff Gordinier -- Table Lessons, from Edible New Orleans / Allison Alsup -- Kitchen Diplomacy, from Garden & Gun / Nic Brown -- At the Stove -- The Truth About Cast Iron Pans, from Serious Eats / J. Kenji Lopez-Alt -- Roasting a Chicken, One Sense at a Time, from Finesse / Russ Parsons -- The Secret Ingredient in the Perfect Burger Is... from Food & Wine / Daniel Duane -- Ragu Finto, from Twelve Recipes / Cal Peternell -- Serial Killer, from KimFoster.com / Kim Foster -- It's Not About the Bread, from Edible Baja Arizona / Megan Kimble -- Traditions -- The Lunch Counter, from Garden & Gun / John T. Edge -- Hot Country, from Saveur / Michael Stern -- Oyster Heaven, from the Seattle Times / Bethany Jean Clement --

Contents note continued: The Story of Chicken, from The Cook's Cook / Karen J. Coates -- Gumbo Paradise, from Saveur / Keith Pandolfi -- In Search of Ragu, from Roads & Kingdoms / Matt Goulding -- How to Make Carnitas That Will Fix Everything That's Wrong in Your Sad, Horrible Life, from BuzzFeed.com / Nicolas Medina Mora -- The Family Table -- The Imperfect Family Kitchen, from ParentsNeedToEatToo.com / Debbie Koenig -- Friday Night Meatballs, from Serious Eats / Sarah Grey -- A Mother's Cookbook Shares More Than Recipes, from the New York Times / Kim Severson -- Of Links and Legacy, from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune / Steve Hoffman -- Monkey Eve, from Alimentum / Carolyn Phillips -- Loving Spoonful, from Saveur / Zainab Shah -- I'm Just Trying to Keep Everyone Alive, from Food52.com / Phyllis Grant -- Life, on a Plate -- Leaning in Toward the Last Supper, from Lucky Peach / Sarah Henry -- Infrequent Potatoes, from Poor Man's Feast / Elissa Altman --

Contents note continued: Finding Home at Taco Bell, from Eater / John DeVore -- The One Ingredient That Has Sustained Me During Bouts of Leukemia, from the Washington Post / Jim Shahin -- Yeast Are Never Depressed, from Leite's Culinaria / David Leite -- Mexico in Three Regrets, from Chow / John Birdsall -- Beach Town, from Lucky Peach / Anthony Bourdain.

Subject Term:

Food -- Literary collections.

Cooking -- Literary collections.

Gastronomy -- Literary collections.

Food.

Cooking.

Added Author:

Hughes, Holly.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2015

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Summary

Anthony Bourdain, John T. Edge, Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Ruth Reichl, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters. These are just some of the celebrated writers and foodies whose work has appeared in Best Food Writing over the past fifteen years. Whether written by an established journalist or an up-and-coming blogger, the essays offered in each edition represent the cream of that year's crop in food writing. And 2015 promises to uphold the same high standards with a dynamic mix of writers offering provocative journalism, intriguing profiles, moving memoir, and more.

Author Notes

Holly Hughes , former executive editor of Fodor's travel publications, is the author of Frommer's 500 Places for Food and Wine Lovers . She lives with her family in New York City.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Whether you think of yourself as a foodie or just like to cook-or eat!-you'll find something to enjoy in this year's collection of food writing. Pieces hail from a range of print and online publications: Saveur, Food52, The Oxford American, Garden & Gun, The New York Times, Esquire, and Buzzfeed.com. A few themes emerge: the contrast between cooking and eating at home and in a restaurant; the increasing interest and frankly, fancied-up tenor, of Americans' interest in ingredients and food preparation vs. the practicalities of making daily meals amid the hustle and bustle of life; and how food and our feelings, both good and bad, find expression together-or not. From the unlikely cult of the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte to racial coding in fine dining, and from life-changing carnitas to the perfect burger, this 16th installment of the series delivers something for every reader's palate. VERDICT Another solid entry in this series anthologizing current food writing; recommended for public and academic libraries.-Courtney Greene McDonald, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.