Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

Enhanced by recipes, menus, period photographs, and drawings, a lively anthology of outstanding food writing offers a taste-tempting culinary tour around the world and through history, from second-century B.C. to the present day, presenting Pliny's thoughts on onions, Dumas on coffee, Colette on gastronomy, and Alice B. Toklas on French cookery, among other topics. Reprint.