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"New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain in a rollicking narrative look at the shocking extremes of the contemporary American food world. A new American cuisine is forming. Animals never before considered or long since forgotten are emerging as delicacies. Parts that used to be for scrap are centerpieces. Ash and hay are fashionable ingredients, and you pay handsomely to breathe flavored air. Going out to a nice dinner now often precipitates a confrontation with a fundamental question: Is that food? Dana Goodyear's…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2015Penguin Publishing Group · 260 pages · 9781594632877
- Other · English · 2013Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. · 262 pages · 9781594488375
Social life and customsCooksGourmetsFoodFood habitsCookingExtremistsCooking, american




