Eating Words - A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is divided into sections such as "Kitchen Practices"; "Food Memory: Identity, Family, Ethnicity"; "Eating: Delight, Disgust, Hunger, Horror" and "Food Politics". Selections by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O'Neill, Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik, along with authors not usually associated with gastronomy-Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Hemingway, Chekhov and David Foster Wallace-enliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology.

About the author

Sandra M. Gilbert (1936—2024) was a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC.Roger J. Porter is a professor of English literature at Reed College. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Summary

A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Roger J. Porter (Editor), Porter Roger J. (Editor), Reichl Ruth (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2016
• EAN: 9780393353518
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35351-8
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, COOKING / General, Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Cookery / food & drink etc, Anthologies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Anthologies (non-poetry), Cookery / food and drink / food writing