The Best American Food Writing 2022

Sohla El-Waylly, Silvia Killingsworth, Sylvia Killingsworth

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780063254411
• eBook ISBN:
  9780063254428
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: North American History

A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. 

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Guest Editors of The Best American Food Writing
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It by Nina Li Coomes
• The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment by Jaya Saxena
• Starving Toward Deliverance by Julia Sonenshein
• The Man Who Didn’t Invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by Sam Dean
• The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting” by Jiayang Fan
• Fruits of Empire by Willa Glickman
• Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict by Jiayang Fan
• Let Them Eat Fakes by Ligaya Mishan
• The Queen of Delicacies by Shane Mitchell
• Ghost Acres: Tulare Lake and the Past Future of Food by Tom Finger
• Revolt of the Delivery Workers by Josh Dzieza
• How Vietnamese Americans Made San Jose America’s Tofu Capital by Adesh Thapliyal
• I Ate Like a Boy to Avoid Being a Queer Man by Logan Scherer
• The Humble Beginnings of Today’s Culinary Delicacies by Ligaya Mishan
• After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land by Tom Philpott
• Innovation and the Incinerated Tongue: Notes on Hot Chicken, Race, and Culinary Crossover by Cynthia R. Greenlee
• A Year of Cooking with My Mother by Eric Kim
• Other People’s Kitchens by Bryan Washington
• Margaritaville and the Myth of American Leisure by Jaya Saxena
• “It’s Hospital Soigné” by Chris Crowley
• The Wild and Irresistibly Saucy Tale of the Curry Con Man by Mayukh Sen
• Tokyo Convenience Store Chicken Gizzards Saved My Life by Andrew Keh
• I Tasted Honda’s Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape by Liz Cook
• The Grapefruit Spoon Makes Life Easier by Rachel Levin
• I Was a Lifelong Vegetarian. I Decided to Taste What I Was Missing by Rajesh Parameswaran
• In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love by Hannah Selinger
• I Recommend Eating Chips by Sam Anderson
• Contributors’ Notes
• Other Distinguished Food Writing of 2021
• About the Editors
• Copyright
• About the Publisher