The best American food writing 2021

Book 2021

""A year that stopped our food world in its tracks," writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this edition of Best American Food Writing create a stunning portrait of a year that shook the food industry, reminding us of how important restaurants, grocery stores, shelters, and those who work in them are in our lives. From the Sikhs who fed thousands during the pandemic, to the writer who was quarantined wit...

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Best American series

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ISBN:

9780358525684

Description:

xviii, 217 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

A New Orleans chef navigates disaster / Helen Rossner
How a cheese goes extinct / Ruby Tandoh
Good bread / Bill Buford
How to feed crowds in a protest or pandemic? The Sikhs know / Priya Krishna
The fed-up chef / Sheila Marikar
Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses / Ligaya Mishan
This is the dumbest foodie battle of our time / Rebecca Onion
SF restaurant's $200-per-person dome is America's problems in a plastic mutshell / Soleil Ho
All Brandon Jew wants is for Chinese restaurants to know their worth / MacKenzie Chung Fegan
Close to the bone / Amy Irving
Cecilia Chiang / Jade Chang
Incubated futures / Britt H. Young
Soli/dairy/ty / Liza Monroy
Get fat, don't die / Jonathan Kauffman
What it's like to self-quarantine with a Michelin-starred chef / Kaitlin Menza
Making reservations / Foster Kamer
The Nazi origins of your favorite natural wine / Leah Rosenzweig
What a 1944 starvation experiment reveals about 2020 food insecurity / Kelsey Miller
Stewed awakening / Navneet Alang
The queer legacy of Elka Gilmore / Mayukh Sen
Who will save the food timeline? / Dayna Evans
You'll probaby never get into this restaurant / Beth Landman
The chef restoring Appalachia's world-class food culture / Eric J. Wallace
Waterworld / Katherine LaGrave

Control Number:

3098704

Other Authors:

Hamilton, Gabrielle, editor
Killingsworth, Silvia, series editor

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