Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Kurlansky, Mark

Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142004937)

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Kurlansky, Mark

Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

$24.00
Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History by Kurlansky, Mark

Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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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 Kurlansky's own original drawings, Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food.


"The most outrageously broad, gregarious food writing anthology." -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.



Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN-10: 0142004936
ISBN-13: 9780142004937
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2004
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.56w x 1.11d
By Mark Kurlansky
By Mark Kurlansky
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Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Food of a Younger Land, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World; Salt: A World History; 1968: The Year That Rocked the World; and The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. He lives in New York City.

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