Anything that moves
Subtitle: renegade chefs, fearless eaters, and the making of a new American food culture
By: Dana Goodyear
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781594488375
Subjects: Social life and customs; Cooks; Gourmets; Food; Food habits; Cooking; Extremists
Description: "New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain in a rollicking narrative look at the shocking extremes of the contemporary American food world. A new American cuisine is forming. Animals never before considered or long since forgotten are emerging as delicacies. Parts that used to be for scrap are centerpieces. Ash and hay are fashionable ingredients, and you pay handsomely to breathe flavored air. Going out to a nice dinner now often precipitates a confrontation with a fundamental question: Is that food? Dana Goodyear's anticipated debut, Anything That Moves, is simultaneously a humorous adventure, a behind-the-scenes look at, and an attempt to understand the implications of the way we eat. This is a universe populated by insect-eaters and blood drinkers, avant-garde chefs who make food out of roadside leaves and wood, and others who serve endangered species and Schedule I drugs--a cast of characters, in other words, who flirt with danger, taboo, and disgust in pursuit of the sublime. Behind them is an intricate network of scavengers, dealers, and pitchmen responsible for introducing the rare and exotic into the marketplace. This is the fringe of the modern American meal, but to judge from history, it will not be long before it reaches the family table. Anything That Moves is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture, and the places where the extreme is bleeding into the mainstream"--
Table of contents: title: Part I. Squishy or Swank?; title: The Scavenger; title: Grub; title: Backdoor Men; title: Part II. Down the Rabbit Hole; title: The Rawesome Three; title: Double Dare; title: Haute Cuisine; title: Part III. Discomfort Food; title: Guts; title: Off Menu; title: The Hunt; title: Coda.