xviii, 246 pages ; 21 cm.

The Best American series

Best American series.

Includes contributors' and other notable food writing from 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-241).

The year's top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.

The kitchen at Per Se was a clean place but hard and heartless too / Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein -- "I just want to eat her up!" / Alex van Buren -- A critic for all seasons / Korsha Wilson -- A real hot mess: how grits got weaponized against cheating men / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- Open wide / Burkhard Bilger -- Fare access: DC restaurants could do more to welcome diners with disabilities / Laura Hayes -- Kitchen shift / Hannah Goldfield -- Lean cuisine doesn't want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice? / Kaitlyn Tiffany -- The demand for "authenticity" is threatening Kansas City's homegrown tacos / José R. Ralat -- The man who's going to save your neighborhood grocery store / Joe Fassler -- The provocations of Chef Tunde Wey / Brett Martin -- What happened to Portland? / Meghan McCarron -- When Jacques Pépin made all the world an omelet / Joshua David Stein -- Where'd you go, Rocco DiSpirito? / Kat Kinsman -- Easy, peasy, Japanese-y: Benihana and the question of cultural appropriation / Sho Spaeth -- It's not always easy to be Jamie Oliver / Kim Severson -- New coke didn't fail. It was murdered / Tim Murphy -- Wet 'n wild / Katy Kelleher -- Peter Luger used to sizzle. Now it sputters / Pete Wells -- Hard times for a hot commodity, the prized New Mexico chile / Amelia Nierenberg -- Here's what the government's dietary guidelines should really say / Tamar Haspel -- The spice trade / Paige Williams -- We all scream / Charlotte Druckman -- What the heck is crab rangoon anyway? / Dan Nosowitz -- Yelp reviewers' authenticity fetish is white supremacy in action / Sara Kay.

Food writing -- United States.

Food -- Literary collections.

Cooking -- Literary collections.

Gastronomy -- Literary collections.

Dinners and dining -- Literary collections.

Food habits -- Literary collections.

Essays.

López-Alt, J. Kenji,

Killingsworth, Silvia,

Container of (work): Onwuachi, Kwame. Kitchen at Per Se was a clean place but hard and heartless too.

Container of (work): Van Buren, Alex. I just want to eat her up.

Container of (work): Wilson, Korsha. A critic for all seasons.

Container of (work): Greenlee, Cynthia R. Real hot mess.

Container of (work): Bilger, Burkhard. Open wide.

Stein, Joshua David,

Container of (work): Hayes, Laura (Writer). Fare access.

Container of (work): Goldfield, Hannah. Kitchen shift.

Container of (work): Tiffany, Kaitlyn. Lean cuisine doesn't want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice?

Container of (work): Ralat, José R. Demand for "authenticity" is threatening Kansas City's homegrown tacos.

Container of (work): Fassler, Joe. Man who's going to save your neighborhood grocery store.

Container of (work): Martin, Brett, 1972- Provocations of Chef Tunde Wey.

Container of (work): McCarron, Meghan. Whatever happened to Portland?

Container of (work): Stein, Joshua David. When Jacques Pépin made all the world an omelet.

Container of (work): Kinsman, Kat, 1972- Where'd you go, Rocco DiSpirito?

Container of (work): Spaeth, Sho. Easy, peasy, Japanese-y.

Container of (work): Severson, Kim. It's not always easy to be Jamie Oliver.

Container of (work): Murphy, Tim (Writer). New coke didn't fail. It was murdered.

Container of (work): Kelleher, Katy. Wet 'n wild.

Container of (work): Wells, Pete. Peter Luger used to sizzle. Now it sputters.

Container of (work): Nierenberg, Amelia. Hard times for a hot commodity, the prized New Mexico chile.

Container of (work): Haspel, Tamar. Here's what the government's dietary guidelines should really say.

Container of (work): Williams, Paige, 1966- Spice trade.

Container of (work): Druckman, Charlotte. We all scream.

Container of (work): Nosowitz, Dan. What the heck is crab rangoon anyway?

Container of (work): Kay, Sara. Yelp reviewers' authenticity fetish is white supremacy in action.

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