Best Food Writing 2007 Author:Holly Hughes (Editor) • The finest culinary prose from the past year:Best Food Writing 2007 assembles, for its eighth year, selections from books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and websites. Included are the best writers on everything from celebrated chefs to the travails of the home cook, from food sourcing at the green market to equipping ... more »one's kitchen, from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs.
• Exceptional essays from food-writing stars: Like the previous seven collections, Best Food Writing 2007 will feature writers such as Robb Walsh, Ruth Reichl, Thomas McNamee, John Thorne, Calvin Trillin, Amanda Hesser, Colman Andrews, Jason Epstein, and Jeffrey Steingarten, among many others.
• Explores the latest trends and tastes of the ever-evolving world of food: By turns opinionated, evocative, nostalgic, sensuous, thought-provoking, and sometimes just plain funny, it's a tasty sampler to dip into time and again, whether you're in the mood for foie gras -- or fruitcake.
Food fights --
Waiting for asparagus / by Barbara Kingsolver --
Local heroes? / by Barry Estabrook --
Rare tuna / by Todd Kliman --
French revolution / by Violaine Charest-Sigouin --
Do recipes make you a better cook? / by Daniel Patterson --
You may kiss the chef's napkin ring / by Frank Bruni --
Discovering new worlds / by Francis Lam --
Feast of burden / by Sara Deseran --
Organicize me / by Michael A. Stusser --
Home cooking --
Kitchen existential / by David Leite --
Cast iron skillet / by Andrea King Collier --
Death by lobster pad Thai / by Steve Almond --
Alabama's best covered-dish dinner / by John T. Edge --
The age of casseroles / by Irene Sax --
Someone's in the kitchen --
The great carrot caper / by Dan Barber --
Spoon-fed / by John Grossmann --
The Harveys circus / by Marco Pierre White and James Steen --
The best chef in the world / by Alan Richman --
Building the perfect pizza / by Laurie Winer --
Sharing in the feast with Johnny Apple / by Adam Noagourney --
Dining around --
My Miami / by Anthony Bourdain --
Then there were none / by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl --
Precision cuisine : the art of feeding 800 a night in style / by Melissa Clark --
The greatest restaurant on earth / by Ivy Knight --
Are you lonesome tonight? / by Gail Shepherd --
Mood food / by Tim Gihring --
Wedded bliss / by Jason Sheehan --
Post-it love / by Brett Anderson --
Fast food --
Don't call it a hot dog / by Joe Yonan --
In search of the transcendent taqueria / by Bill Addison --
Porno burrito / by Jonathan Gold --
Las fabulosas taco trucks / by Robb Walsh --
The world's kitchen --
The soulful creÌpes of Brittany / by Nancy Coons --
Shanghai high / by Adam Sachs --
Old school Madrid / by Anya Von Bremzen --
Visiting the old city / by Madhur Jaffrey --
Waiting for a cappuccino / by Carolyn TheÌriault --
The Japanese paradigm / by John Kessler --
The insidious rise of cosmo-cuisine / by Salma Abdelnour --
The meat of the matter --
Meat / by James Sturz --
What's a stake at the butcher shop / by Pete Wells --
The best burger / by Raymond Sokolov --
Steak, well done / by Colman Andrews --
Personal tastes --
A memorable fruit / by Shuna Fish Lydon --
A sugar binge / by Charles Ferruzza --
The centerpiece / by Rita Williams --
A grandchild of Italy cracks the spaghetti code / by Kim Severson --
Why I cook --
The frying of latke 49 / by Steven Shaw --
Around the world to our kitchen table / by Ame Gilbert --
Give me credit / by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall --
Cooking for a crowd / by Matthew Amster-Burton --
Simple cooking, then and now / by John Thorne« less