Best Food Writing 2000

by Hughes, Holly; Waters, Alice

• ISBN13: 9781569246160
• ISBN10: 1569246165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

This collection of essays, reviews, articles and other miscellaneous pieces are brought together from a wide range of sources -- food, travel and general interest magazines, national and local newspapers, "foodie" newsletters, and Web sites.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Alice Waters
Introduction	xv
Holly Hughes
Stocking the Larder
The Cook and the Gardener	2	(12)
Amanda Hesser
The Smoky Trail to a Great Bacon	14	(6)
R.W. Apple Jr.
Corn in the USA	20	(5)
Warren Schultz
Pasta Meets the Tomato	25	(4)
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
It Takes a Village to Kill a Pig	29	(15)
Jeffrey Steingarten
The Flavor of Autumn	44	(5)
Lori Zimring De Mori
Getting Sauced	49	(5)
Michael Hood
Nothing Is Better than Butter	54	(3)
Al Martinez
Smell the Coffee	57	(5)
Dara Moskowitz
Food Court	62	(5)
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
The Primal Feast	67	(11)
Susan Allport
Home Cooking
Recipes from My Mother	78	(5)
Sallie Tisdale
One Knife, One Pot	83	(6)
John Thorne
Bottom-Drawer Blues	89	(5)
Kim Severson
Herbs at the Kitchen Door	94	(9)
Jerry Traunfeld
Eggs	103	(10)
Madhur Jaffrey
One Bite Won't Kill You	113	(5)
Ann Hodgman
Vegetarian Turkey	118	(5)
Fran Gage
Dinner for 7: What Could Be Easier?	123	(7)
William Grimes
The Breath of a Wok	130	(6)
Grace Young
The Cook, Her Son, and a Secret	136	(5)
Maya Angelou
Weekend Lunch	141	(6)
Nigella Lawson
Bragging Rites	147	(6)
Rick Bragg
The Chef Challenge	153	(7)
Tom Sietsema
Someone's in the Kitchen
The Objects of Our Culinary Affections	160	(5)
Greg Atkinson
A Day in the Life	165	(20)
Anthony Bourdain
The Chef of the Future	185	(9)
Phyllis Richman
Natural-Born Keller	194	(9)
Michael Ruhlman
On Burgundian Tables	203	(10)
Anne Willan
Jacques Pepin's Safari	213	(7)
Kate Sekules
Rice: From ``Ripe Lips'' to ``The Ultimate Act of Love in the Kitchen''	220	(6)
Cherry Ripe
The Risotto Lesson	226	(5)
Dorothy Kalins
Should Chefs Write Cookbooks?	231	(7)
Anne Mendelson
Dining Around
Restaurant Baby	238	(5)
Karen Stabiner
...And $300 Fed a Crowd?	243	(6)
Eric Asimov
The Past on a Plate	249	(6)
Jane
Michael Stern
Hot on the Barbecue Trail	255	(5)
Vince Staten
The Belly of Paris	260	(8)
Megan Wetherall
The Waiting Game	268	(3)
Ruth Reichl
Spamming the Globe	271	(3)
Jonathan Gold
Recipes for Dummies	274	(10)
Jim Quinn
Personal Tastes
A Tale of Two Chowhounds	284	(5)
Jim Leff
The Reluctant Gourmet	289	(5)
Mark Kurlansky
Sundays with Ravioli	294	(7)
Alex Witchel
Indian Takeout	301	(4)
Jhumpa Lahiri
P.C. and Proud of It	305	(6)
James Villas
The Chinese Kitchen	311	(7)
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian	318	(5)
Laura Fraser
The Magic Bagel	323	(8)
Calvin Trillin
My Dragon-Dancing Years	331	(5)
Fae Myenne Ng
Assault and Battery	336	(5)
Betty Fussell
Permissions	341	(7)
Submissions	348