{"product_id":"9781604736861","title":"The New Great American Writers Cookbook","description":"Cookery -- American Literature-- \u003cp\u003ePublished in 1981, \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Writers Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late, great Bernard Malamud share space with columnists Dave Barry, P. J. O'Rourke, and Christopher Buckley, with journalists and novelists Andrei Codrescu, Anna Quindlen, and John Berendt, and with poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros. The interspersing of recipes from older and younger generations reveals cookery as creatively diverse as the writings from David Guterson, T. C. Boyle, Elizabeth McCracken, and former First Lady Barbara Bush. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This unusually tangy assortment of more than 150 recipes runs the gamut from tofu to heart-clogging chili. Writers play fast and loose with ingredients and forewarn readers planning to try them that some of the most seductive recipes are loaded with cholesterol. With such temptations as \"Thighs of Delight,\" \"Crevettes De r,\" a \"sexy spaghetti sauce,\" and a lemon icebox pie that allegedly elicits proposals of marriage, the recipes-and stories revealing their origins-is enticing, bizarre, and promisingly tasty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The collection gives particular emphasis to contemporary southern writers-Padgett Powell, Jack Butler, Larry Brown, Ellen Gilchrist, and Josephine Humphreys, among others, although their recipes are often far from being quintessentially \"Southern.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scintillating with writerly antics and witty histories as transfixing as the recipes themselves, \u003ci\u003eThe New Great American Writers Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e is not just for daring cooks. It's also a collector's item for food-doting lovers of American literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean Faulkner Wells lives and writes in Oxford, Mississippi. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Writers Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Bad Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Politicians Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGhosts of Rowan Oak\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e, and other periodicals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Reed is a senior writer at \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, writing about food.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183276212464,"sku":"9781604736861","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604736861_p0.jpg?v=1763833360","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604736861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}