The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
HarperCollins · Paperback · October 22, 2024
A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi. “Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi.
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- Who it’s for
- Food and travel essays make familiar rituals and faraway places newly resonant.
- Themes
- Food, travel, and cultural meaning, Food and childhood memory, Finding beauty in daily life
- Genres
- Travel Writing, Essay Collections, Food Writing & Memoir
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A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi. “Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.”
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The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it. An ode to the American grilled cheese spurs the desire to find beauty in the smallest daily activities. An obsessive odyssey for the perfect Chinese food blossoms into a heart-wrenching search for a lost childhood. Bold and insightful, joyful and moving, this collection celebrates the experiences that connect us all. The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024 includes C PAM ZHANG • LIGAYA MISHAN • KIESE LAYMON • MARIAN BULL • MAYUKH SEN • BEN TAUB • AND OTHERS
Meals, Elsewhere
Food and travel essays make familiar rituals and faraway places newly resonant.
Come here for
- Writing that connects food, travel, and the meanings we make
- Journeys from Dakar to Michoacán and the Camino de Santiago
Expect
- A collection moving between joyful, bold, and heart-wrenching
- Small pleasures beside searching personal stories
Where it sits
| Food Writing & Memoir | 46% |
|---|---|
| Essay Collections | 35% |
| Travel Writing | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Cooking
- Food Writing & Memoir
- Cooking Resources
- American Literary Collections
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- Essay Collections
- Travel Writing
- Food Travel
- Authors
- Padma Lakshmi, Jaya Saxena
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 22, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Food, travel, and cultural meaning · Food and childhood memory · Finding beauty in daily life
- Reading lane
- American Cooking