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Calling all New York City-area foodistas -- we'll be having not one but TWO Best Food Writing readings later this month. On Monday, October 23rd at 7pm, Elissa Altman, Julia Moskin, Greg Rosalky, and Anna Roth will be reading at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on East 86th Street. Then on Thursday, October 26, at 7:30pm, you can hear Elissa Altman, Jason Diamond, Keith Pandolfi, and Greg Rosalsky read their work from this year's edition. Come one, come all!

Hey there, San Francisco food folks -- come to Omnivore Books on Tuesday evening, October 17, for a sampling of essays from this year's Best Food Writing book. Hear J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Daniel Duane, Rachel Levin, Luke Tsai, and Elizabeth Weil read from their pieces in this year's anthology. See you there!

Final selections have been made! Stay tuned here for news about which of your favorite writers will appear in Best Food Writing 2017!

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Here's what Todd Kliman, Jason Tesauro, Joe Yonan, and I were up to last weekend, talking about Best Food Writing at the excellent Virginia Festival of the Book.
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html5-player.libsyn.com Welcome to my latest episode! Were you a bad food enthusiast? Did you go see Walter White at JPJ last Sunday and *NOT* go to the

Best Food Writing 2017 is already well underway! This year, submissions are being accepted for any pieces published between May 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016. Please submit any eligible pieces by March 15, to [email protected]. I look forward to reading them!

PUBLICATION DAY! Yeah, I know there's a lot of other important stuff going on. But food is where we gather, where we connect, where we heal. And here's a whole book about those connections and that sustenance.

Wow. A lot of surprising entries zeroing in on this year's Best Food Writing 2016. Never the same old same old...

It's the time of the season . . . of selecting Best Food Writing selections for 2017. If you have a piece published between June 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016, please send it to me via [email protected]. Hey, you never know!

Da Capo Press Holiday "Food(ie) Prize Pack!"

Cool holiday give-away by DaCapo Press, featuring Best Food Writing 2015 along with Will Write For Food by the estimable
Dianne Jacob. Check it out!
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app.snapapp.com Enter now to win a Spiked Eggnog Truffles and Brown Butter Toffee Bark from EHChocolatier -- Boston's Best Chocolate, 2015 -- and a copy of Best Food Writing 2015 & Will Write for Food. This is the perfect gift + stocking stuffer! bon appétit!

Beneath New York Public Library, Shelving Its Past for High-Tech Research Stacks

The New York Public Library is bringing its stacks into the 21st century -- and guess what book it mentions? (Okay, okay, hang in there until paragraph six...) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/books/beneath-new-york-public-library-shelving-its-past-for-high-tech-research-stacks.html?ref=design&_r=0

nytimes.com After abandoning a much-criticized plan to move most of its research books to New Jersey, the library is creating a new storage and retrieval system under Bryant Park.

Free Excerpt from Best Food Writing 2015!

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app.snapapp.com A distinguished group of talented writers covers everything from high-level chefs to the shifting paradigms of gourmet dining, from perfectionistic home cooks to road-tripping quests for culinary traditions, alongside voices who champion the local, the handmade, the just-plain-folks end of things.

Best Food Writing 2015

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amazon.com Anthony Bourdain, John T. Edge, Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Ruth Reichl, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters. These are just some of the celebrated writers and foodies whose work has appeared in Best Food Writing over the past fifteen years. Whether written by an established journalist or an up-and-comi...

BEST FOOD WRITING | Da Capo Press

So many of you have been asking -- so here's the table of contents for Best Food Writing 2015, posted on the http://www.bestfoodwritingbook.com/ website.

bestfoodwritingbook.com Alice Waters, Maya Angelou, Nigella Lawson, Rick Bragg, Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl, Jhumpa Lahiri, Calvin Trillin, Molly O’Neill, Michael Lewis, David Sedaris, Jeffrey Eugenides, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Bittman, Gabrielle Hamilton, Corby Ku**er, Michael Pollan, Ann Patchett, Adam Gopnik, Jacques P…

And now we're rounding the turn, heading into the home stretch. Nominations are now closed (sorry!) and I'm faced with the unwelcome task of choosing among so many wonderful pieces for this year's final cut. Stay tuned!

The time is ripe to submit or nominate pieces for Best Food Writing 2015. Send your picks to [email protected].

Alimentum - A Review of Best Food Writing 2014 Edited by Holly

Lovely review from the literary food journal Alimentum. You folks GET IT. http://www.alimentumjournal.com/a-review-of-best-food-writing/ #.VOv6yuk5DIW

alimentumjournal.com The literature of food.

Love the 2014 book and already we're looking to 2015. Got something to submit? Send it to [email protected].

The Perfect Gift for a Foodie!

app.snapapp.com Today we're giving away a bundle of Best Food Writing 2014 goodies and a copy of The New Greenmarket Cookbook by Gabrielle Langholtz and GrowNYC. You won't want to miss this!

Two Civil Eats Stories Appear in ‘Best Food Writing 2014’

So happy to have 2 pieces from CivilEats.com in this year's book.
http://civileats.com/2014/10/21/two-civil-eats-stories-appear-in-best-food-writing-2014/

civileats.com Last year, during the heat of our Kickstarter campaign, we called upon some of our favorite writers to spin their gold for us. Not only did they help us raise $100,000, they also wrote for us for free. Now, in a great honor, two of their stories have been included in the Best Food Writing... Read Mo…

Best Food Writing 2014

In bookstores October 21 -- but why wait when you can pre-order?

barnesandnoble.com Available in: Paperback. For fourteen years, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year's food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year, from a range of voices: foo

We have our own official website now! Check it out at www.bestfoodwritingbook.com.

Reading page proofs -- yes, the 2014 edition is getting ready to go to press! And a tasty collection it is this year, indeed...

Mad rush to finalize list for the 2014 book. This is the Sophie's Choice part of the process, where I have to cut pieces I love to make the budget, page count and table of contents come out just right. Every year there's more good food writing out there -- makes my job harder and harder!

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2014 Best Food Writing, available for pre-order already!

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The 2014 book is ready for pre-order! (Even though I haven't even finished editing it....)

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I'm currently in the thick of reading candidates for inclusion in this year's book -- please send possible entries to [email protected] . Pieces must have been published between June 1, 2013, and May 31, 2014. Hope you've got something special for me!

BEST FOOD WRITING 2013 by Holly Hughes

Kirkus Reviews also had some nice things to say about the 2013 Best Food Writing collection.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/holly-hughes/best-food-writing-2013/

kirkusreviews.com Longtime editor Hughes once again compiles a tasty collection of culinary essays for those who love to eat, cook and read about food.

Nonfiction Book Review: Best Food Writing 2013 by Edited by Holly Hughes. Da Capo, $15.99 trade...

Nice review of the 2013 book in Publisher's Weekly...



http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7382-1716-1

publishersweekly.com Editor Hughes's annual anthology has once again successfully captured the mood in today's food world. The season of foam and gels has passed, she reflects in the introduction, and the Year of the P

Hard to believe it, but the 2013 Best Food Writing is now in the works. If you've got something you'd like to submit -- 1,000 to 5,000 words, published between June 1, 2012, and May 31, 2013 -- please email it to [email protected]. Thanks!

THE LYON REVIEW

A little food-writing side project -- Food Month at Mt. Holyoke College's Lyon Review!

http://thelyonreview.com/

thelyonreview.com The Literary Magazine for MHC Alumnae and Faculty