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The best American food writing 2022 / edited and with an introduction by Sohla El-Waylly ; Silvia Killingsworth, series editor

Published
New York, NY : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xxii, 230 pages ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators
El-Waylly, Sohla and Killingsworth, Silvia

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Contents
Foreword / Silvia Killingsworth -- Introduction / Sohla El-Waylly -- If silence is the cost of great ramen, so be it (from 'The Atlantic') / Nina Li Coomes -- The limits of the lunchbox moment (from 'Eater') / Jaya Saxena -- Starving toward deliverance (from 'Catapult') / Julia Sonenshein -- The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos (from 'Los Angeles Times') / Sam Dean -- The gatekeepers who get to decide what food is "disgusting" (from 'The New Yorker') / Jiayang Fan -- Fruits of empire (from 'The New York Review of Books') / Willa Glickman -- Chronicles of a bubble-tea addict (from 'The New Yorker') / Jiayang Fan -- Let them eat fakes (from 'The New York Style Magazine') / Ligaya Mishan -- The queen of delicacies (from 'The Bitter Southerner') / Shane Mitchell -- Ghost acres : Tulare Lake and the past future of food (from 'Pipe Wrench') / Tom Finger -- Revolt of the delivery workers (from 'New York Magazine') / Josh Dzieza -- How Vietnamese Americans made San Jose America's tofu capital (from 'KQED') / Adesh Thapliyal -- I ate like a boy to avoid being a queer man (from 'Bon Appetit') / Logan Scherer -- The humble beginnings of today's culinary delicacies (from 'The New York Style Magazine') / Ligaya Mishan -- After a century of dispossession, Black farmers are fighting to get back to the land (from 'Mother Jones') / Tom Philpott -- Innovation and the incinerated tongue : Notes of hot chicken, race, and culinary crossover (from 'The Counter') / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- A year of cooking with my mother (from 'The New York Times') / Eric Kim -- Other people's kitchens (from 'The Cut') / Bryan Washington -- Margaritaville and the myth of American leisure (from 'Eater') / Jaya Saxena -- "It's hospital soigné" (from 'Grub Street') / Chris Crowley -- The wild and irresistibly saucy tale of the curry con man (from 'Vox') / Mayukh Sen -- Tokyo convenience store chicken gizzards saved my life (from 'The New York Times') / Andrew Keh -- I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape (from 'Haterade') / Liz Cook -- The grapefruit spoon makes life easier (from 'Eater') / Rachel Levin -- I was a lifelong vegetarian. I decided to taste what I was missing (from 'Bon Appetit') / Rajesh Parameswaran -- In my childhood kitchen, I learned both fear and love (from 'Bon Appetit') / Hannah Selinger -- I recommend eating chips (from 'The New York Times Magazine') / Sam Anderson -- Contributors' notes -- Other distinguished food writing of 2021.
Summary
Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
""Good food writing," writes guest editor Sohla El-Waylly, "is often a Trojan horse that looks like an easy-to-swallow treat but is actually filled with tales about culture, history, and even scandal." 'The Best American Food Writing 2022' is a poignant reflection of our current moment, offering not only rich, mouthwatering stories but also powerful insights into politics, accessibility, and equity. From a group of delivery workers sleuthing their way to retrieving their stolen bikes, to a retelling of the origins of hot chicken as revenge on an adulterous partner, to a surprising recipe involving rodent-repelling tape, these pieces nourish, invigorate, and most importantly, challenge us to think critically about how food comes to our plates. As El-Waylly writes in her introduction, "Food offers a clear path to connecting with anyone." This collection offers a beautiful view of that path."--taken from back cover.
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0063254417 paperback
9780063254411 paperback
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