- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press (Nov 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1569246165
- ISBN-13: 978-1569246160
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,030,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What's more fun: eating food or reading about it? Justifying the latter proposition in style, Best Food Writing 2000 offers an enticing selection of the year's best book, magazine, newspaper, newsletter, and Internet food prose. It culls the work of a wide range of authors, including Maya Angelou, Madhur Jaffrey, Calvin Trillin, and John Thorne--writers associated with food and not. Foodies and nonfoodies alike will welcome Best as a rich source of literary snacking.
Within its five parts, which include "Stocking the Larder," "Dining Around," and "Personal Tastes," the book offers delights such as Eric Asimov on America's most expensive restaurant; Grace Young exploring wok cookery; Anthony Bourdain recounting a chef's day in the life; and Anne Willan on the Burgundian table. Readers will also enjoy Vince Staten on barbecue, Jim Quinn's "Recipes for Dummies," Laura Fraser on giving up vegetarianism, and Trillin on the perfect bagel. What emerges finally from the book is a sense of how we feed ourselves, in every way. A look at this compelling question, plus a host of other food-related matters, makes this collection a small joy. --Arthur Boehm
From Publishers Weekly
Although this debut addition to the annual "best of" books offers some fine writing about food, its most likely audienceAfoodies who subscribe to cooking magazines and purchase cookbooksAwill have already read at least half of these essays when they originally appeared in Gourmet, Bon App?tit and similar publications (e.g., R.W. Apple Jr.'s ode to high-quality bacon first appeared in the New York Times, and in a piece from Vogue, Jeffrey SteingartenAthe self-described "man who ate everything"Awrites of his search for pig's blood). However, as Hughes points out, she culled her selections from a variety of media including culinary memoirs, social histories, profiles of chefs, essays on trends and techniques, and odes to individual foodstuffs such as Marlena de Blasi's nostalgic tribute to an especially satisfying plate of pasta. In one of the more engaging articles entitled "Bottom-Drawer Blues," Kim Severson of the San Francisco Chronicle interviews Chuck Williams of Williams-Sonoma about kitchen gadgets (e.g., egg separators and Williams's three-pronged hot-boiled-potato peeler) that just don't sell. Other successful pieces are Anne Mendelson's Gourmet essay against celebrity-chef cookbooks and Laura Fraser's rationale from Salon.com for quitting vegetarianism after 15 years that initially appeared on Salon.com. (Dec. 1)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best of the Best of Food Writing Series (So Far),
By takingadayoff "takingadayoff" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Best Food Writing 2000 (Paperback)
This is my favorite volume of the Best of Food Writing series so far (late 2003). It introduced me to Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain, whose books I might not have discovered if I had not read their excerpts here first.By collecting material from a variety of sources (books, magazines, webzines, newspapers), Hughes has given us access to more, and better, food writing than we would have hunted down ourselves. The result is fabulous. I was so impressed with Laura Fraser's piece on why she stopped being a vegetarian, reprinted from Salon.com. The topic is unexpected, the writing seems effortless, and she really made me think about the subject in a different way. Then I had to find what else she had written and was captivated by An Italian Affair. I also started reading Salon.com. Read all the Best of Food Writing series, but be sure to read this one first!
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This review is from: Best Food Writing 2000 (Paperback)
From straight forward food writing, to stories that food plays a award winning supporting role; this is a delightful collection of stories that will keep you engrossed from begininning to end. Some surprising, some informative, a few heartfelt, and some down right funny!
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Throw away your magazines,
By David Leite (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Best Food Writing 2000 (Paperback)
If you're like me, you have stashed away in every conceivable corner, closet, and bathroom enough cooking and food magazines to stock a public library in Lubbock Texas. In the back of your mind you remember that somewhere in that pile of pulp is the article on the foraging of truffles that you were meaning to read, the pullout explaining the proper way to stuff a Christmas goose, and the latest column from that delightfully obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon, Jeffery Steingarten. The only problem is you can't remember exactly where. So it's either sitting down in front of the Television Food Network and flipping through enough pages until your thumb turns black or picking up BEST FOOD WRITING 2000. All the articles that you remembered reminding yourself to read (and plenty others of equal quality) are all there. Let's hope they keep this up every year; my apartment is closing in on me.
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