Best Food Writing 2009 - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738213691 ISBN 13: 9780738213699

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2009

Best Food Writing 2009 authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. This anthology features both established food writers and rising stars cooking up everything from erudite culinary history to food-inspired memoirs. By turns opinionated, evocative, sensuous, and just plain funny, it's a tasty sampler to dip into time and again.

As in previous editions, Best Food Writing 2009 will include top-notch writers like Colman Andrews, Anthony Bourdain, Frank Bruni, Bill Buford, Madhur Jaffrey, Ruth Reichl, Raymond Sokolov, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters, and many others.

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About the Author:

Holly Hughes, editor of the Best Food Writing series since its inception, is also the author of Frommer's 500 Places to Take the Kids Before They Grow Up. She lives with her family in New York City.

Review:

Publishers Weekly, 10/26/09
“Editor Hughes skims the cream off a year’s worth of culinary journalism in the latest annual. As with previous editions, Hughes captures the gastronomic zeitgeist in a broad range of essays...This is a sound reader for those looking to catch up on trends in the culinary world, but foodies already immersed in the culture are sure to find some overlooked gems.”

Booklist, 12/1/09
“In this collection, just about every level of culinary curiosity gets a chance to shine.”

Entertainment Weekly, 12/4/09
“With 50 delectable essays...the latest installation of the Best Food Writing series is less a literary meal than a stuff-your-face feast of gourmet journalism....all the pieces have a common ingredient: an insatiable, contagious curiosity about all things edible. And as if that weren't enough, their bite-size proportions even seem to anticipate your inevitable need for snack breaks.”

Sacremento Bee, 11/22/09
“This is a book worth devouring.”

The Hippo NH, 12/2/09
“Best Food Writing 2009 is that annual collection of food lust”

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/2/09
“The cream of the crop of food writing compilations...The 2009 selections are the best yet.”

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