| Description |
xxii, 230 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series.
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| Contents |
If silence is the cost of great ramen, so be it / Nina Li Coomes -- The limits of the lunchbox moment / Jaya Saxena -- Starving toward deliverance / Julia Sonenshein -- The man who didn't invent flamin' hot cheetos / Sam Dean -- The gatekeepers who get to decide what food is "disgusting" / Jiayang Fan -- Fruits of empire / Willa Glickman -- Chronicles of a bubble-tea addict / Jiayang Fan -- Let them eat fakes / Ligaya Mishan -- The queen of delicacies / Shane Mitchell -- Ghost acres: Tulare Lake and the past future of food / Tom Finger -- Revolt of the delivery workers / Josh Dzieza -- How Vietnamese Americans made San Jose America's tofu capital / Adesh Thapliyal -- I ate like a boy to avoid being a queer man / Logan Scherer -- The humble beginnings of today's culinary delicacies / Ligaya Mishan -- After a century of dispossession, Black farmers are fighting to get back to the land / Tom Philpott -- Innovation and the incinerated tongue: notes on hot chicken, race, and culinary crossover / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- A year of cooking with my mother / Eric Kim -- Other people's kitchens / Bryan Washington -- Margaritaville and the myth of American leisure / Jaya Saxena -- "It's hospital soigné" / Chris Crowley -- The wild and irresistibly saucy tale of the curry con man / Mayukh Sen -- Tokyo convenience store chicken gizzards saved my life / Andrew Keh -- I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape / Liz Cook -- The grapefruit spoon makes life easier / Rachel Levin -- I was a lifelong vegetarian. I decided to taste what I was missing / Rajesh Parameswaran -- In my childhood kitchen, I learned both fear and love / Hannah Selinger -- I recommend eating chips / Sam Anderson. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of articles on food and drink published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Eric Kim, Mayukh Sen, and Hannah Selinger. |
| Subject |
Food writing -- United States.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
El-Waylly, Sohla, editor.
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Coomes, Nina Li.
If silence is the cost of great ramen, so be it.
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Saxena, Jaya.
Limits of the lunchbox moment.
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Sonenshein, Julia.
Starving toward deliverance.
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Dean, Sam.
Man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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Fan, Jiayang.
Gatekeepers who get to decide what food is "disgusting."
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Glickman, Willa.
Fruits of empire.
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Fan, Jiayang.
Chronicles of a bubble-tea addict.
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Mishan, Ligaya.
Let them eat fakes.
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Mitchell, Shane, 1957-
Queen of delicacies.
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Finger, Tom.
Ghost acres.
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| ISBN |
9780063254411 pbk. |
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