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The Best American Food Writing 2018

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Selected by Ruth Reichl, “punchy and vibrant” essays on food, its place on our tables, in our lives, and in our world (Publishers Weekly).
 
The twenty-eight pieces in this volume are about food, yet touch on every pillar of society: from the sense memories that connect a family, to the scientific tinkering that gives us new snacks to share, to the intersections of culinary culture with some of our most significant political issues. Included among other essays are:
  • “Revenge of the Lunch Lady” by Jane Black, food writer for the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
  • “How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry” by Dana Goodyear, author of Anything that Moves
  • “Who Owns Uncle Ben?” by Shane Mitchell, James Beard Award winner and Saveur contributing editor
  • “Is Dinner for Two Worth $1,000?” by Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic
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    At times a celebration, at times a critique, at times a wondrous reverie, The Best American Food Writing 2018 is brimming with delights both circumspect and sensuous. Dig in!
     
    “For pure food writing fun, it’s hard to beat Baxter Holmes’s ‘The NBA’s Secret Sandwich Addiction,’ which will have readers first laughing incredulously and then hungrily craving a PB&J on plain white bread. Thoughtful and educational, enticing and entertaining, this collection has something for everyone.”—Publishers Weekly
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        August 27, 2018
        Reichl (My Kitchen Year) dispels the stereotype of food writing as transient fluff with this punchy and vibrant collection of pieces originally published in a wide range of venues, including the New Yorker and trend sites such as Thrillist. There are odes to dining scenes, like Karen Brooks’s two-fisted defense of Portland, Ore., as a great pizza city (“our unofficial food motto: no idea forbidden”), as well as profiles of foodie celebs like Mary H.K. Choi’s glowing take on Milk Bar’s Christina Tosi and Kushbu Shah’s pilgrimage to Ree Drummond’s remote Oklahoma eatery. Politics are a constant, with Jane Black’s phenomenal “Revenge of the Lunch Lady” contemplating the policy and culinary implications of free lunch programs in the Trump administration, while Shane Mitchell in “Who Owns Uncle Ben?” delves into the racial history of rice in America. For pure food writing fun, it’s hard to beat Baxter Holmes’s “The NBA’s Secret Sandwich Addiction,” which will have readers first laughing incredulously and then hungrily craving a PB&J on plain white bread. Thoughtful and educational, enticing and entertaining, this collection has something for everyone.

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    This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.