Best Food Writing 2016 9780738219455, 0738219452
For sixteen years, this annual anthology has served up the cream of each year's crop of food writing. The 2016 edit
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English Year 2016
Table of contents :
Brooklyn is everywhere / John Birdsall --
On chicken tenders / Helen Rosner --
In praise of ugly food / Kat Kinsman --
How to dupe a moderately ok food critic / Luke Tsai --
Three-ring meal : the grasping novelty of modern dining / Jennifer Cockrall-King --
Sorry, Blue Apron, the joys of cooking can't fit in a box / Corby Kummer --
Quitting season / Debbie Weingarten --
The true story of good coffee / Matt Buchanan --
Getting drunk on tea infusions with Montreal's underground connoisseurs / Rowan Jacobsen --
The great bourbon taste test / Wells Tower --
The case for bad coffee / Keith Pandolfi --
Blending in / Steve Hoffman --
The servant problem / Toni Tipton-Martin --
Chained to the stove : what it's really like to write a cookbook / Jessica Battilana --
The epiphany that turned me into a good baker / Kathy Gunst --
Zahav vs. The Food Lab / Phyllis Grant --
What it's like to cook with Dominque Crenn / Daniel Duane --
Pile of Goop / Kathleen Purvis --
Moving kitchen / Laura Donohue --
The meaning of mangoes / Dianne Jacob --
The millionaire's turkey : a father-daughter story / Betsy Andrews --
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash / Besha Rodell --
Mom's meatballs / Victoria Pesce Elliott --
Kummerspecks / Michael Procopio --
Butchering London / Chris Newens --
Charred and feathered / Brian Kevin --
Ya-Ka-Mein : old sober / L. Kasimu Harris --
Hot sauce in her bag / Mikki Kendall --
Glori-fried and glori-fied / Alice Randall --
Everyday sacred : a personal path to gumbo / Pableaux Johnson --
The American diner at age 143 / Max Ufberg --
Penn Station's Underground Raw Bar / Tove Danovich --
Table for one / James Nolan --
Dinner and deception / Edward Frame --
The hunger games / Howie Kahn --
Eating and drinking in Mexico City : a diary / Todd Kliman --
Bo Bech discovers the bounty of Virginia / Jason Tesauro --
Smoke signals / Julia Kramer --
Why serious bakers have mother issues / Andrea Strong --
Cooks are different / Michael Ruhlman --
Rites of the Caquelon / Tim Neville --
The chef who saved my life / Brett Martin --
Sonoko dreams of Sobo / Francis Lam --
So long, menus
Hello, pots and pans / Pete Wells --
Dinner party diaries / Andrew Sean Greer --
Churnin' / Carol Penn-Romine --
The breakfast club / Rachel Levin --
Filter fish / Oliver Sacks.
