Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite

Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. In Mouth Wide Open, his fifth collection, he has prepared a feast for the senses and intellect, charting a cook's journey from ingredient to dish in illuminating essays that delve into the intimate pleasures of pistachios, the Scottish burr of real marmalade, how the Greeks made a Greek salad, the (hidden) allure of salt anchovies, and exploring the uncharted territory of improvised breakfasts and resolutely idiosyncratic midnight snacks. Most of all, his inimitable warmth, humor, and generosity of spirit inspire us to begin our own journey of discovery in the kitchen and in the age-old comfort and delight of preparing food.

Author: John Thorne
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 11/25/2008
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.50w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780374531430

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 20
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001

About the Author

John Thorne and Matt Lewis Thorne live in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they publish the food letter Simple Cooking. Their most recent book, Pot on the Fire, won a James Beard Foundation Book Award.

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