Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History-Fast Shipping

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Title: Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

Author: Mark Kurlansky

ISBN: 9780142004937

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2004

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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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.