Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture

✍ Scribed by Goodyear, Dana

• Book ID: 107909194
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 352 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101632062

✦ Synopsis

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 anticipated debut, Anything That Moves, is simultaneously a humorous adventure, a behind-the-scenes look at, and an attempt to understand the implications of the way we eat. This is a universe populated by insect-eaters and blood drinkers, avant-garde chefs who make food out of roadside leaves and wood, and others who serve endangered species and...