num_pages: 512
description: Food writing spans centuries and philosophies. . . . At long last theres a Norton Anthology with all the most important works. Eater Edited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome and including travel essays polemics memoirs and poems the book is divided into sections such as Food Writing Through History At the Family Hearth Hunger Games: The Delight and Dread of Eating Kitchen Practices and Food Politics. Selections from writings by Julia Child Anthony Bourdain Bill Buford Michael Pollan Molly ONeill Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik along with works by authors not usually associated with gastronomyMaxine Hong Kingston Henry Louis Gates Jr. Hemingway Chekhov and David Foster Wallaceenliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology. We are living in the golden age of food writing proclaims Ruth Reichl in her preface to this savory banquet of literature a must-have for any food lover. Eating Words shows how right she is.
language: English
title: Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company