Choice Cuts : A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
by Kurlansky, Mark
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0142004936
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004937
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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
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5380584-6
- Title
- Choice Cuts : A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
- Author
- Kurlansky, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0142004936
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004937
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 26, 2004
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