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Best Food Writing 2009 (2009)

by Holly Hughes(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0738213691 (ISBN13: 9780738213699)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Da Capo Lifelong Books

review 1: Why did I wait so long to read one of the books in this series (aside from a ridiculous overload of reading materials)? Although some of the selections are, predictably, more compelling than others, few of them failed to make me hungry for whatever food was under discussion--Mexican, BBQ, French toast, cheese (OK, not oysters or Japanese cocktails). And now I'm seriously considering subscribing to Saveur and Gastronomica, from which most of the very best pieces came (not that I'll ever have time to read even more magazines). Oh, wait--THAT'S what these "best of" collections are for, isn't it?
review 2: A WONDERFUL read, but this collection includes too many articles (from The NY Times, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New Yorker, and other popular publications) that I... more had already read. I was looking for new (to me), exciting voices, and I found some, but I am sure that there were even better articles wrtten in 2009 that were overlooked. Standouts for me were Anna Ciezadlo's "They Remember Home" about Iraqi refugees in Lebanon and Tim Carman's "How Not to Hire a Chef". less

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