Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection Of Food Writing From Around The World And Throughout History

Award-winning food writer Mark Kurlansky serves up a true smorgasbord of "choice cuts" by the world's most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the ages. From Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria to Pablo Neruda on French fries and M.F.K. Fisher on gingerbread, "Choice Cuts" offers more than 200 selections--all enhanced by Kurlansky's original drawings.

Mark Kurlansky is one of our most erudite and entertaining food writers: the bestselling author of "Salt" and "Cod," winner of the prestigious James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing. Now in this delightful collection he serves up a true smorgasbord of achoice cutsa by the worldas most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the agesafrom Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria.

"Choice Cuts" offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic photographs, and Kurlanskyas own original drawings, "Choice Cuts" is a must-have for any serious lover of food.