Choice Cuts

Choice Cuts comprises more than 200 pieces. Here are essays by Plato on the art of cooking.. Alice B. Toklas on killing a carp... M.F.K. Fisher on the virility of Turkish desserts... Alexandre Dumas on coffee... W.H. Auden on Icelandic Food... Elizabeth David on the downward march of English pizza... Claude Levi- Strauss on 'the idea of rotten' ...James Beard on scrambled eggs... Balzac, Virginia Wolf, E.M. Forster, Chekhov and many other gourmands, gourmets, cooks and writers on the passions of cuisine.Presented by subject- including 'Food and Sex' , 'Bread', 'Rants' and 'Desserts'- and illustrated with Kurlansky's own pen-and -ink drawings as well as classic photographs, this wonderful collection, like the very best meal, is varied, delicious and uniquely satisfying.