Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast

by Edited By Michelle Wildgen, Francine Prose, Steve Almond
Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast  
published 2006 by Tin House Books
binding Paperback
isbn 0977312771   (isbn13: 9780977312771)
pages 225
description Food and Booze celebrates seven years of delicious writing culled from Tin House’s “Readable Feast” and “Blithe...more
date added
02-26-07



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Sundry
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09/03/07

Read in June, 2007
Truly wonderful essay anthology. I haven’t enjoyed this many essays this much…ever.

An amazing diversity of approaches to the subject matter_ yes, it’s food and booze_ , each with a recipe included.

Though I don’t think I’ll ever need to try the elk mincemeat recipe, I liked some of them well enough to order a used copy from Amazon.com.

The book was loaned to me by a writer friend who is encouraging me to remember to have fun with writing, to write what makes me happy and to m...more
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Siobhan
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10/08/07

Read in October, 2007
recommends it for: People who don't normally like food writing
This was good. I normally find food writing kind of earnest and irritating, full of forced meaning, but most of the essays here were funny, information-packed, and oddly page-turning. I learned about squirrel pie! I learned about Iranian cuisine! I learned about absinthe!

I also re-learned why I do not care for Lan Samantha Chang (file under "earnest and irritating, full of forced meaning").

But seriously. Mostly? Extremely good. Like, almost-miss-your-subway-stop good.
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Chadwick
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06/30/07

bookshelves: food
Read in June, 2007
recommends it for: lovers of fluent food writing
This is a lovely collection of gem-like essays taken from the pages of Tin House magazine. They cover topics from cocktails to eating elk, and each one has that marvelous combination of the sensual and essential human truth that marks the very best in food writing. The recipes are great as well.
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Emily
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09/04/07

Read in January, 2007
In my ever-ending quest for great food-writing, I stumbled across this collection from the literary magazine Tin House. Good writing about good food doesn't get better.
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Elizabeth
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08/04/07

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I was pretty disappointed with this collection. It's a weird mixture of recipes, essays and short stories.
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Virginia
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09/02/07

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Collection of essays from the literary journal <i>Tin House<i>
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