The best American food writing 2018
By: edited and with an introduction by Ruth Reichl ; Silvia Killingsworth, series editior
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Mariner Original; Best American series; Mariner original; Best American series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781328662248
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Gastronomy; Literary collections; Dinners and dining; Food; Food habits; Cooking
Description: In this inaugural edition in a new series, Ruth Reichl [collects] pieces originally published in a wide range of venues ... There are odes to dining scenes, like Karen Brooks's two-fisted defense of Portland, Ore., as a great pizza city ... as well as profiles of foodie celebs like Mary H.K. Choi's ... take on ... Christina Tosi and Kushbu Shah's pilgrimage to Ree Drummond's remote Oklahoma eatery. Politics are a constant, with Jane Black's ... 'Revenge of the Lunch Lady' contemplating the policy and culinary implications of free lunch programs in the Trump administration, while Shane Mitchell in 'Who Owns Uncle Ben?' delves into the racial history of rice in America"--Publisher's Weekly, 08/27/2018.
Table of contents: title: Revenge of the lunch lady  -- Jane Black; title: New York. Chicago. Detroit. Portland? Making the case for a new American pizza city  -- Karen Brooks; title: Christina Tosi has a cookie  -- Mary H. K. Choi; title: I've worked in food for twenty years.  Now you finally care about female chefs  -- Amanda Cohen; title: Secrets in the sauce  -- Lauren Collins; title: On the Ibérico Trail  -- John T. Edge; title: Bringing in the beans  -- Ted Genoways; title: Is dinner for two worth $1,000?  -- Jane Black; title: How Driscoll's reinvented the strawberry  -- Dana Goodyear; title: Temples of the seasons  -- Alex Halberstadt; title: The struggle of "eating well" when you're poor  -- Marissa Higgins; title: The NBA's secret sandwich addiction  -- Baxter Holmes; title: The white lies of craft culture  -- Lauren Michele Jackson; title: Where's the beef  -- Beth Kowitt; title: In God's hands  -- Francis Lam; title: To wash or not to wash  -- Harold McGee; title: Born in the USA : the rise and triumph of Asian-American cuisine  -- Ligaya Mishav; title: Who owns Uncle Ben  -- Shane Mitchell; title: Georgetown one stop  -- John O'Connor; title: The country sausage that's going to town  -- Chris Offutt; title: The teenage whaler's tale  -- Julia O'Malley; title: The mad chese scientists fighting to save the dairy industry  -- Clint Rainey; title: The joy of reading about cooking  -- Tejal Rao; title: Oysters : a love story  -- Tejal Rao; title: Mario Batali and the appetites of man  -- Helen Rosner; title: Pawhuska or bust : a journey to the heart of pioneer woman country  -- Khushbu Shah; title: The world's last great undiscovered cuisine  -- Anya Von Bremzen; title: After oranges -- Wyatt Williams.