Choice Cuts
by Kurlansky, Mark
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- G+
- ISBN 10
- 0142004936
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004937
- Seller
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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 Kurlansky’s own original drawings, Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food. “The most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology.” –Saveur Mark 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.
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- Bookseller
- Priceless Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229724
- Title
- Choice Cuts
- Author
- Kurlansky, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- ISBN 10
- 0142004936
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004937
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Food
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