Choice Cuts

Mark Kurlansky

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Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780099449973
Published: 6 May 2004

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Synopsis

The winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history - from the fifth century BC to the present day.

Presented by subject - including 'Food and Sex', 'Bread', 'Rants' and 'Dessert' - and illustrated with Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings as well as classic photographs, this wonderful collection, like the very best meal, is varied, delicious and uniquely satisfying.

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What the critics say

An endlessly varied overview of our culinary history... an hors d'oeuvre to more satisfying topics of history and culture
- Scotland on Sunday

A lively selection
- Guardian

The book is fat with eccentric wit, tips and recipes... there are rich pickings especially among the literary tidbits: Hemingway on fish in the Seine, Chekhov on oysters and - best of all - Pablo Neruda's 'Ode to French Fries'
- The Times

A mouthwatering compendium on food
- Vogue

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About the Author

Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, The Basque History of the World and Salt: A World History; the novels Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue and Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts; and the short story collection The White Man in the Tree. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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