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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Choice Cuts A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Mark Kurlansky (Editor), Josephine Bailey (Narrator), Ed Begley Jr (Narrator), Constance Towers Gavin, (Narrator), Michael Kramer, Carrington McDuffie (Narrator), Shannon Tweed (Narrator) Mark Kurlansky, the winner of the James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing, shares a varied selection of "choice cuts" by others by others, as he leads us on a mouthwatering culinary tour around the world and through history and culture from the fifth century B.C. to the present day. These essays about food make your mouth... more » water, your appetite build, and your appreciation for the art and history of cuisine grow by leaps and bounds. Mark Kurlansky, food historian and writer for Food and Wine magazine, comments about and introduces historical thoughts on everything from scrambled eggs to roast ribs of beef, souffles, and every category of food you can imagine. Choice Cuts features more than two hundred pieces from Cato to Cab Calloway. Here are essays by Plato on the art of cooking, Pablo Neruda on french fries, Balzac, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Chekhov, Aristotle, Julia Child, James Beard, Gertrude Stein, and other famous authors and historians on the passions of cuisine. This enticing look at food is entertaining, amusing, and fun.
Unabridged - 14 CDs - 15 hours 22 minutes - read by Josephine Bailey, Ed Begley, Jr., Constance Towers Gavin, Michael Kramer, Carrington McDuffie, and Shannon Tweed« less