November 15, 2016 $15.99 USD / $21 CDN Paperback Original Food / Essays 304 pages ISBN 978-0-7382-1945-5Now THIS is a nice posting to write. My "Three Ring Meal: grasping the novelty of modern dining" article from Eighteen Bridges magazine has made the cut. It appears in the 2016 Best Food Writing, a terrific series now in its seventeeth year from Da Capo Press.
This series is a my go-to anthology each year for the collection of great writing...so I'm still not entirely convinced that I should be in there with the likes of Pete Wells, Francis Lam, Dianne Jacob, John Birdsall, and even the late Oliver Sacks. Holy Moses.
Mostly, I'm thrilled to shine a light on Eighteen Bridges, the best damn Canadian narrative journalism magazine you've never heard of. Well, in 2017, we're planning on changing that...not the quality of the magazine, just the fact that we win so many national and Western magazine awards but no one knows about us. (Disclosure: I'm a contributing editor and I write the food column each issue.) Please support great narrative journalism and Canadian writers by subscribing to Eighteen Bridges.
Best Food Writing 2016 hits the bookstores this month. Here's the full lineup of selections and authors.
We’re pleased to announce our selections for…
BEST FOOD WRITING 2016
Edited by Holly Hughes
Brooklyn Is Everywhere, Bon Appetit
By John Birdsall
On Chicken Tenders, Guernica
By Helen Rosner
In Praise of Ugly Food, Serious Eats
By Kat Kinsman
How to Dupe a ‘Moderately OK’ Food Critic, East Bay Express
By Luke Tsai
Three-Ring Meal: The Grasping Novelty of Modern Dining, Eighteen Bridges
By Jennifer Cockrall-King
Sorry, Blue Apron, the Joys of Cooking Can’t Fit in a Box, the New Republic
By Corby Kummer
Quitting Season, Edible Baja Arizona
By Debbie Weingarten
The True Story of Good Coffee, the Awl
By Matt Buchanan
Getting Drunk on Tea Infusions with Montreal’s Underground Connoisseurs, Vice Magazine
By Rowan Jacobsen
The Great Bourbon Taste Test, Garden & Gun
By Wells Tower
The Case for Bad Coffee, Serious Eats
By Keith Pandolfi
Blending In, Food & Wine
By Steve Hoffman
The Servant Problem, the Jemima Code
Toni Tipton-Martin
Chained to the Stove: What It’s Really Like to Write a Cookbook, Serious Eats
By Jessica Battilana
The Epiphany that Turned Me Into a Good Baker, the Washington Post
By Kathy Gunst
Zahav V. The Food Lab, Food52
By Phyllis Grant
What It’s Like to Cook With Dominique Crenn, Food & Wine
By Daniel Duane
Pile of Goop, the Charlotte Observer
By Kathleen Purvis
Moving Kitchen, Crumbs on the Table
By Laura Donohue
The Meaning of Mangoes, Lucky Peach
By Dianne Jacob
The Millionaire’s Turkey: A Father-Daughter Story, Serious Eats
By Betsy Andrews
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, Gravy Quarterly
By Besha Rodell
Mom’s Meatballs, the Miami Herald
By Victoria Pesce Elliot
Kummerspecks, Food for the Thoughtless
By Michael Procopio
Butchering London, Roads & Kingdoms
By Chris Newens
Charred & Feathered, Audubon
By Brian Kevin
Ya-Ka-Mein: Old Sober, Edible New Orleans
By L. Kasimu Harris
Hot Sauce in Her Bag, Eater
By Mikki Kendall
Glori-fried and Glori-fied, Gravy Quarterly
By Alice Randall
Everyday Sacred: A Personal Path to Gumbo, Serious Eats
By Pableaux Johnson
The American Diner at Age 143, Pacific Standard
By Max Ufberg
Penn Station’s Underground Raw Bar, Edible Manhattan
By Tove Danovich
Table for One, Gastronomica
By James Nolan
Dinner and Deception, the New York Times
By Edward Frame
The Hunger Games, Travel + Leisure
By Howie Kahn
Eating and Drinking in Mexico City: A Diary, the Washingtonian
By Todd Kliman
Bo Bech Discovers the Bounty of Virginia, Travel + Leisure
By Jason Tesauro
Smoke Signals, Bon Appetit
By Julia Kramer
Why Serious Bakers Have Mother Issues, Serious Eats
By Andrea Strong
Cooks Are Different, Tin House
By Michael Ruhlman
Rites of the Caquelon, Ski Magazine
By Tim Neville
The Chef Who Saved My Life, GQ
By Brett Martin
Sonoko Dreams of Soba, Saveur
By Francis Lam
So Long, Menus; Hello, Pots and Pans, the New York Times
By Pete Wells
The Breakfast Club, the Lucky Peach
By Rachel Levin
Dinner Party Diaries, Saveur
By Andrew Sean Greer
Churnin’, Hungry Passport
By Carol Penn-Romine
The Breakfast Club, the Lucky Peach
By Rachel Levin
Filter Fish, the New Yorker
By Oliver Sacks
