Mouth Wide Open

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, ho