Best Food Writing 2012 Book

Introduction Holly Hughes ix

Food Fights

On Killing, From HunterAnglerGardenerCook.com Hank Shaw 2

The Gumbo Chronicles, From Outside Rowan Jacobsen 7

Serving Up Sustainability, From Edible Boston Erin Byers Murray 22

Kids Battle the Lure of Junk Food, From Pacific Northwest Magazine Maureen O'Hagan 29

Pastoral Romance, From Lapham's Quarterly Brent Cunningham 36

Farm to Table

Sweet Spot, From Alimentum Paul Graham 48

Snowville Creamery Has a Modest Goal: Save the World, From Edible Columbus Eric LeMay 56

Matters of Taste, From Tomatoland Barry Estabrook 62

Olives and Lives, From Extra Virginity Tom Mueller 69

This Little Piggy Went to Market, From Memoir Journal Laura R. Zandstra 74

Home Cooking

How to Live Well, From An Everlasting Meal Tamar Adler 82

Still Life with Mayonnaise, From At the Kitchen Table Greg Atkinson 92

The Fried Chicken Evangelist, From Leite's Culinaria Lorraine Eaton 97

Lasagna Bolognese, From SmittenKitchen.com Deb Perelman 103

The Forager at Rest, From Bon Appetit Christine Muhlke 111

Better Cooking Through Technology, From Technology Review Corby Kummer 117

Foodways

The Pastrami Dilemma, From Chow.com John Birdsall 128

Passover Goes Gourmet, From Sunset Rachel Levin 133

The 2011 Dyke March Wiener Taste Test, From The Stranger Bethany Jean Clement 136

The Missing Link, From The Times-Picayune Brett Anderson 140

Foraging and Fishing Through the Big Bend, From Desert Terroir Gary Paul Nabhan 149

Italian America, From Saveur John Mariani 162

What Makes Sushi Great?, From GiltTaste.com Francis Lam 169

Food for Thought, From the New York Times Jeff Gordinier 173

Dude Food

Learning to Barbecue Helped Make Me a Man, From Food & Wine Joel Stein 180

Memphis in May: Pork-a-Looza, From Garden & Gun Wright Thompson 185

Truffle in Paradise, From Gastronomica John Gutekanst 193

A Slice of Family History, From Food & Wine Daniel Duane 204

Barbecue Road Trip: The Smoke Road, From Garden & Gun John T. Edge 208

The Family Table

The Food-Critic Father, From The Washingtonian Todd Kliman 214

The Legacy That Wasn't: Wonton Soup, From A Spoonful of Promises T. Susan Chang 230

Curious Cookies, From Edible Vancouver Eagranie Yuh 237

Chicken Brick, From Fire & Knives Henrietta Clancy 241

Angry Breakfast Eggs, From Poor Man's Feast.com Elissa Altman 246

Sweet Southern Dream, From Saveur Ben Mims 250

Someone's in the Kitchen

The King of Pop-Up, From GQ Brett Martin 258

Hot Plate, From Minnesota Monthly Rachel Hutton 267

Austria's Culinary Ambassador, From Edible Manhattan St. John Frizell 276

Remembering Savoy, From Edible Manhattan Rachel Wharton 289

Appetite for Perfection, From Los Angeles Magazine Ed Leibowitz 298

Supper Clubs in Denver, From the Denver Post John Broening 313

Why Chefs Sell Out, From Chow.com Richie Nakano 317

A Chef's Painful Road to Rehab, From the Chicago Tribune Kevin Pang 320

Bitter Start to a Life of Sweets, From Sacramento Bee Chris Macias 327

Personal Tastes

Kitchen Confessional: Burnin' Down Da House, From Leite's Culinaria David Leite 336

Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?, From Texas Monthly John Spong 342

A Proposal for Feeding the Fat and Anxious, From Gastronomica Josh Ozersky 354

The Bone Gatherer, From Saveur Mei Chin 359

They Don't Have Tacos in the Suck, From Houston Press Katharine Shilcutt 364

I Won't Have the Stomach for This, From the New York Times Anna Stoessinger 374

Recipe Index 379

Permissions Acknowledgments 380

About the Editor 385