Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing - Softcover

Sandra M. Gilbert; Roger J. Porter; Ruth Reichl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393353516 ISBN 13: 9780393353518

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

"...the whole point of anthologies is that in among the old friends you make some new ones, and there are several worthy fresh acquaintances here." The Independent

Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is divided into sections such as "Kitchen Practices"; "Food Memory: Identity, Family, Ethnicity"; "Eating: Delight, Disgust, Hunger, Horror" and "Food Politics". Selections by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O Neill, Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik, along with authors not usually associated with gastronomy Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Hemingway, Chekhov and David Foster Wallace enliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology.

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Review:

"Eating Words is a remarkable gathering of commentary on every aspect of food from the ritualistic and symbolic to the pragmatic; a wonderfully diverse collection of writers from the renowned and classic (Hemingway, Chekhov, Julia Child) to contemporaries (Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Calvin Trillin, Henry Louis Gates Jr.). There is much for carnivores here, not surprisingly, but surprisingly, there is a good deal here for vegetarians as well. Fascinating reading. A feast of a book!" --Joyce Carol Oates

"Eating Words is a remarkable gathering of commentary on every aspect of food from the ritualistic and symbolic to the pragmatic; a wonderfully diverse collection of writers from the renowned and classic (Hemingway, Chekhov, Julia Child) to contemporaries (Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Calvin Trillin, Henry Louis Gates Jr.). There is much for carnivores here, not surprisingly, but surprisingly, there is a good deal here for vegetarians as well. Fascinating reading. A feast of a book!" --Joyce Carol Oates

About the Author:

Sandra M. Gilbert has published numerous volumes of criticism as well as collections of poetry and a memoir. She is co-editor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California. Roger J. Porter is a professor of English literature at Reed College. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393353516
• ISBN 13: 9780393353518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512