Best food writing 2011

Publisher review:
Food writing has soared into the limelight in the past decade; nowhere else is it as easy and enjoyable to catch the trends, big stories, and upcoming stars than in the annual Best Food Writing collection. From a Texas State Fair deep-fry champion to a Los Angeles bread baker, sourcing everything from wild boar in Hawaii to tater tots in Chicago, there’s something for every foodie in this new edition of the acclaimed series.

Index:
- Introduction.
Foodways
- Everything comes from the sea, Departures, Colman Andrews.
- We shall not be moved, High on the hog, Jessica B. Harris.
- From Kenya, with love, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Rick Nelson.
- Peasants, Tin house, Geoff Nicholson.
- I belive I can fry, Texas Monthly, Kate Vine.
- Fried-cheese epiphany at a street fair, salon.com, Francis Lam.
Home cooking
- Prep school, The New York Times Magazine, Pete Wells.
- How to become an intuitive cook, Food & Wine, Daniel Duane.
- Purple reign, blood-and-thunter.com, Alan Brouilette.
- Saints, cakes, and redemption, leitesculinaria.com, Allison Parker.
- Mock turtle soup, Fannie’s last supper, Christopher Kimball.
- Nathan Myhrvold’s method makes science of cooking, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sophie Brickman.
- The case for handwriting, zesterdaily.com, Deborah Madison.
- The famous recipe, Colorado Review, Floyd Skloot.
Stocking the pantry
- Broccolini: what’s in a name?, Gastronomica, Thomas Livingston.
- A tome at twig farm, Immortal milk, Eric LeMay.
- Breadwinners, Edible Manhattan, Indrani Sen.
- A fig by any other name, Gastronomica, Gary Paul Nabhan.
- Going full boar in Hawaii, Bon Appétit, Hugh Garvey.
- Fruits of desire, Saveur, Mike Madison.
Food fights
- Shark’s fin: understanding the political soup, San Francisco Weekly, Jonathan Kauffman.
- Life in a food desserts, The Kansas City Star, Jill Wendholt Silva.
- A tale of two dairies, Gastronomica, Barry Estabrook.
- The feed frenzy, 7x7 Magazine, Sara Deseran.
- A digerati’s food diary, Food & Wine, Nick Fauchald.
- Everyone’s a critic, The Boston Globe, Ike DeLorenzo.
- New Orleans family oyster company devises new business model to stay alive, The Times-Picayune, Brett Anderson.
Guilty pleasures
- Reflections on a tin of Vienna sausages, good.is, John Thorne.
- 800 words on tater tots (no, seriously), The Chicago Tribune, Kevin Pang.
- Area burger joints take the junk out of fast food, Edible Boston, Steve Holt.
- Fry girl’s year of eating dangerously, Phoenix New Times, Laura Hahnefeld.
- Craving the food of depravity, poormansfeast.com, Elissa Altman.
- In defense of shite food, Fire & Knives, Bryce Elder.
Someone’s in the kitchen
- The apostle of indulgence, Playboy, Julian Sancton.
- Hooked on classics, Saveur, Jay Rayner.
- Chinese takeout artist, chow.com, Lessley Anderson.
- The inadvertent education of a reluctant chef, Blood, bones and butter, Gabrielle Hamilton.
- Expression, The sorcerer’s apprentices, Lisa Abend.
- Is the Willows Inn all that?, The Stranger, Bethany Jean Clement.
Personal tastes
- Reconsider the oyster, Fire & Knives, Tim Hayward.
- Magical dinners, The New Yorker, Chang-Rae Lee.
- The golden silver palate, Alimentum, Ann Hood.
- When food doesn’t heal, leitesculinaria.com, David Leite.
- Befriending your palate, Reading between the wines, Terry Theise.
- On toast, foodforthethoughtless.com, Michael Procopio.

About the author:
Holly Hughes is a writer, the former executive editor of Fodor’s Travel Publications, and author of:
- Frommer’s 500 places for food and wine lovers.

Book reviews:
“Stories for connoisseurs, celebrations of the specialized, the odd, or simply the excellent”. Entertainment Weekly.
“Some of these stories can make you burn with a need to taste what they’re writing about”. Los Angeles Times.
“An exceptional collection worth revisiting, this will be a surefire hit with epicureans and cooks”. Publishers Weekly.
“There’s a mess of vital, provocative, funny, and tender stuff... in these pages”. USA Today.