The Best American Food Writing 2021
Feb 2024 · HarperCollins
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Remarkable essays spanning a year that shook the food industry—and led us to reflect on our appetites—by Bill Buford, Priya Krishna, Jade Chang, and more.
"A year that stopped our food world in its tracks," writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this edition of Best American Food Writing create a stunning portrait of a year that upended the food industry, reminding us of how restaurants, grocery stores, shelters, and those who work in them are so important in our lives and our society. From the Sikhs who fed thousands during the pandemic, to the writer who was quarantined with her Michelin-starred chef boyfriend, to the restaurants that served $200-per-person tasting menus to the wealthy as the death toll soared, this superb collection captures the underexposed ills of the industry and the unending power of food to unite us, especially when we need it most.
This extraordinary volume represents the year's top food writing, celebrating the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country, edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton.
THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2021 INCLUDES • BILL BUFORD • RUBY TANDOH • PRIYA KRISHNA • LIZA MONROY • NAVNEET ALANG • KELSEY MILLER • HELEN ROSNER • LIGAYA MISHAN and others
Praise for The Best American Food Writing
"[A] punchy and vibrant collection . . . Thoughtful and educational, enticing and entertaining." — Publishers Weekly
"A year that stopped our food world in its tracks," writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this edition of Best American Food Writing create a stunning portrait of a year that upended the food industry, reminding us of how restaurants, grocery stores, shelters, and those who work in them are so important in our lives and our society. From the Sikhs who fed thousands during the pandemic, to the writer who was quarantined with her Michelin-starred chef boyfriend, to the restaurants that served $200-per-person tasting menus to the wealthy as the death toll soared, this superb collection captures the underexposed ills of the industry and the unending power of food to unite us, especially when we need it most.
This extraordinary volume represents the year's top food writing, celebrating the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country, edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton.
THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2021 INCLUDES • BILL BUFORD • RUBY TANDOH • PRIYA KRISHNA • LIZA MONROY • NAVNEET ALANG • KELSEY MILLER • HELEN ROSNER • LIGAYA MISHAN and others
Praise for The Best American Food Writing
"[A] punchy and vibrant collection . . . Thoughtful and educational, enticing and entertaining." — Publishers Weekly
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May 21, 2025
A super Easy recipe is always newsworthy; meal preparation time consuming so equipment is more important than the recipe. To be impressed by cookbooks, its easy to cook is what to say. Its great when prep directions are printed on groceries. Kitchen appliance with heat an provide instruction manual. What are cookbooks for why are most alone? They might belong to fruit orchards in national parks. The solar system can eat fruit tree extract juice. Raw fruit & veggies meal side dish worsened to fish a sushi at diners and dives. Plus CBD & marijuana have kitchen space to be mixed in food
About the author
Gabrielle Hamilton received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Bon Appétit, Saveur, House Beautiful, and Food & Wine. She also wrote the 8-week Chef column in The New York Times. She is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York's East Village. She won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef NYC. She is the author of Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef and Prune.
SILVIA KILLINGSWORTH is the digital editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and a former editor of The Awl and The Hairpin. Prior to that she was the managing editor of The New Yorker, and wrote regularly for their magazine and website. She lives in Westchester County, New York.
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