Best Food Writing 2003 Author:Holly Hughes (Editor) Best Food Writing 2003 assembles, for the fourth year, the most exceptional writing from the past year’s books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and websites. Within its six sections—Stocking the Larder, Home Cooking, Someone’s in the Kitchen, Dining Around, The Recipe File, and Personal Tastes—read our best writers on... more » everything from celebrated chefs to extraordinary restaurants, from histories of vital ingredients to food-inspired memoirs. Included are pieces from such stars of the genre as John Thorne, Amanda Hesser, and Calvin Trillin. Selected as required reading by the Culinary Institue of America for all of its undergraduate students, neither cook nor food lover should be without this remarkable annual collection.
Kit / Nigel Slater --
Cutting school / Joyce Chang --
The torch is passed, handle first / Amanda Hesser --
A man and his stove / David Leite --
Desperate measures / Matthew Amster-Burton --
Makin' groceries / Jessica B. Harris --
Slow sausage / Corby Kummer --
Travels with Captain Bacon / Pete Wells --
Sustaining vision / Michael Pollan --
Earthy / Margo True --
Buttering up / Jeffrey Steingarten --
Looking for the lard / Elmer R. Grossman --
from Sugar / Fran Gage --
Treat or treat / Dara Moskowitz --
What Einsterin told his cook / Robert L. Wolke --
With pancakes, every day is Sunday / Lucian K. Truscott IV --
Fried chicken and grits / Damon Lee Fowler --
Pepper pot hot / John Thorne --
Grilling, short and sweet / John Kessler --
Cajun pig party / Kathleen Brennan --
A dieter's dilemma / Jason Epstein --
The zen of frosting / Ann Patchett --
Josiah & the giant onion / Dave Gardetta --
Guess who's coming to dinner / Gabrielle Hamilton --
Say cheez / Robb Walsh --
An ode to sloppy joe, a delicious mess / Andrea Strong --
Bread winner / Susan Choi --
Salumi / Min Liao --
I see London, I see France / Jonathan Gold --
The myth of caviar / Inga Saffron --
Untangling my chopsticks / Victoria Abbott Riccardi --
Local bounty / Calvin Trillin --
The cooking game / Adam Gopnik --
Where recipes come from / Benjamin Wallace --
The culinary underground / John T. Edge --
Life on the line / Jason Sheehan --
Monsieur Feret builds his neighborhood dream house / Eric Levin --