num_pages: 473
description: 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 Kurlanskys own original drawings Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food.The most outrageously broad gregarious food writing anthology. SaveurMark 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.
language: English
title: Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
publisher: Penguin Books