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Choice Cuts

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099449973

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 199mm x 31mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 395g

  • RRP: £7.99

Choice Cuts

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099449973

  • Length: 496  Pages

  • Dimensions: 199mm x 31mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 395g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • "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

Mark Kurlansky is the bestselling author of several bestselling nonfiction titles including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award), The Basque History of the World, Salt: A World History, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, a short story collection The White Man in the Tree and a novel, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue.

Mark Kurlansky

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