The Best American Food Writing 2019
Food in America is an almost six trillion dollar industry, so it’s no surprise that some of the best food writing takes us deep into the world of business. But here too food writers are bringing something special to the table, another way of peering behind the curtain.
Food Writing Grows Up
I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
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Seeing the country laid out in that way, its biodiversity charted on a menu, the place I had been living in or traveling around for eight years at that point, was revealing. It allowed me to pull all those scattered fragments of the previous years together and visualize their connections. To understand this idea, is to see gastronomy less as a col
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