- 320 pages
- English
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
About this book
A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.
“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it. An ode to the American grilled cheese spurs the desire to find beauty in the smallest daily activities. An obsessive odyssey for the perfect Chinese food blossoms into a heart-wrenching search for a lost childhood. Bold and insightful, joyful and moving, this collection celebrates the experiences that connect us all.
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024 includes C PAM ZHANG • LIGAYA MISHAN • KIESE LAYMON • MARIAN BULL • MAYUKH SEN • BEN TAUB • AND OTHERS
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- “New American,” “Fusion,” and the Endless, Liberating Challenge of Describing American Food Right Now
- The Science of Savoring
- The Gay Roots of (Ugh) Friendsgiving
- Orange Is the New Yolk
- India’s Beef with Beef
- The Hungry Jungle
- Notable Sandwiches #75: Grilled Cheese
- My Favorite Restaurant Served Gas
- Our Daily Ceeb
- Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
- Taste the Feeling
- My Catalina
- Forbidden Fruit
- In the West Bank, Palestinians Preserve Grapes and Tradition
- Meet America’s Godmother of Tofu
- The Butchering
- From Blackout to Bakhmut
- The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”
- Unsafe Passage
- Numinous Strangers
- How Things Disappear
- Eating Badly
- Contributors’ Notes
- Other Distinguished Food and Travel Writing of 2023
- About the Editors
- Guest Editors of The Best American Food and Travel Writing
- About Mariner Books
- Copyright
- About the Publisher