Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima,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 Kurlanskyâ€™s own original drawings, ,Choice Cuts, is a must-have for any serious lover of food.,â€œThe most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology.â€ â€“Saveur,Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including ,Salt, The Basque History of the World,, ,1968,, and ,The Big Oyster,. His newest book is ,Birdseye.
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History