Choice Cuts

Choice Cuts

a miscellany of food writing

Summary

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.

Reviews

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

About the author

Mark Kurlansky

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