Best Food Writing 2016 - Softcover

Hughes, Holly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738219444 ISBN 13: 9780738219448

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2016

Synopsis

Like your favourite local grocery store, with its sushi bar, fresh baked goods, and maybe a very obliging butcher, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For seventeen years, Holly Hughes has delved into piles of magazines and newspapers, scanned endless websites and blogs, and foraged through bookstores to provide a robust mix of what's up in the world of food writing. From the year's hottest trends (this year: meal kits and extreme dining) to the realities of everyday meals and home cooks (with kids, without special occasions and every day) to highlighting those chefs whose magic is best spun in their own kitchens, these essays once again skillfully, deliciously evoke what's on our minds,and our plates. Pull up a chair.Contributors include:Betsy AndrewsJessica BattilanaJohn BirdsallMatt BuchananJennifer Cockrall-KingTove DanovichLaura DonohueDaniel DuaneVictoria Pesce ElliottEdward FramePhyllis Grant Andrew Sean GreerKathy GunstL. Kasimu HarrisSteve HoffmanDianne JacobRowan JacobsenPableaux JohnsonHowie KahnMikki KendallBrian KevinKat KinsmanTodd KlimanJulia KramerCorby KummerFrancis LamRachel LevinBrett MartinTim NevilleChris NewensJames NolanKeith PandolfiCarol Penn-RomineMichael ProcopioKathleen PurvisAlice RandallBesha RodellHelen RosnerMichael RuhlmanOliver SacksAndrea StrongJason TesauroToni Tipton-MartinWells TowerLuke TsaiMax UfbergDebbie WeingartenPete Wells

About this title

Review

"This collection has something for connoisseurs, short story fans, and anyone hungry for a good read."--Library Journal

"Browse, read a bit, browse some more and then head for the kitchen."--Hudson Valley News

"The finest in culinary prose is offered in this new anthology...these pages delight and inform readers with entertaining and provocative essays...This book ultimately opens readers' eyes to honest, real food and the personal stories of the people behind it."--Taste for Life

"Longtime editor Hughes once again compiles a tasty collection of culinary essays for those who love to eat, cook and read about food...A literary trek across the culinary landscape pairing bountiful delights with plenty of substantive tidbits."--Kirkus Reviews

"A top-notch collection, Hughes brings together a wonderful mix that is sure to please the foodie in all of us."--San Francisco Book Review

"An exceptional collection worth revisiting, this will be a surefire hit with epicureans and cooks."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"If you're looking to find new authors and voices about food, there's an abundance to chew on here."--Tampa Tribune
Praise for the Best Food Writing Series

"With this typically delectable and eclectic collection of culinary prose, editor Holly Hughes proves her point made in the intro that the death of 68-year-old Gourmet magazine a year ago didn't lead to the demise of quality food journalism...There's a mess of vital, provocative, funny and tender stuff...in these pages."--USA Today

"Some of these stories can make you burn with a need to taste what they're writing about."--Los Angeles Times

"The essays are thought-provoking and moving...This is an absolutely terrific and engaging book...There is enough variety, like a box of chocolates, that one can poke around the book looking for the one with caramel and find it."--New York Journal of Books

"What is so great about this annual series is that editor Holly Hughes curates articles that likely never crossed your desk, even if you're an avid reader of food content. Nearly every piece selected is worth your time."--The Huffington Post

"Stories for connoisseurs, celebrations of the specialized, the odd, or simply the excellent."--Entertainment Weekly

"This book is a menu of delicious food, colorful characters, and tales of strange and wonderful food adventures that make for memorable meals and stories."--Booklist
"There's something for everyone in the compilation, and because the stories are blog or magazine length, there's not much of a time commitment. If you only have 15 minutes to sit outdoors and read, you can finish at least one piece from beginning to end."
--Mother Nature Network

Book Description

The seventeenth edition of the classic food writing anthology that serves up "a menu of delicious food, colourful characters, and tales of strange and wonderful food adventures" (Booklist) each year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0738219444
• ISBN 13: 9780738219448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hughes Holly