OK, good people. Best writing on food.
I'm not talking recipes, not talking science of eating, I want the best writing on what it feels like as your teeth bite into a strawberry, or as your tongue licks a tamarind and fish sauce barbecue.
Hit me.
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Even all these years later, no one's ever topped Nigel Slater's food memoir 'Toast'
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Seconding this recommendation.
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Food: True Stories of Life on the Road (Travelers' Tales Guides) Nonfiction compilation but many visceral and profound food stories!
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I'm certain that you will receive answers far more informed than mine, but I was so young when I read Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon. I've not thought about onions, oranges, peppermint pigs, or lamb in the same way since
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