Gastropolis: Food and New York City

Edited by Annie S. Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch

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Paper, 368 pages, 36 b&w halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13652-5
$19.95 / £13.95

November, 2008
Cloth, 368 pages, 36 b&w halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13653-2
$29.95 / £19.95

"While New York may be the subject of more food writing than any other site in the United States, this volume will surprise, enchant, and enlighten. The collection shines." — Frederick Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach

"Gastropolis is a fun read, specifically for those who have watched their culture rise and blossom in this great variegated city." — Eats.com

"A veritable feast." — Sam Roberts, New York Times

"A highly original collection. I know of no other book quite like it. The authors and editors are exceptionally fine writers and scholars in the emerging area of food studies." — Warren Belasco, professor of American studies, University of Maryland, and author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry

Related Subjects

• Food History & Culinary Studies

Series

• Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

About the Author

Annie S. Hauck-Lawson is associate professor of foods and nutrition at Brooklyn College and the president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. She curated the foodways component of the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival's New York City program and is a Park Slope native whose life has revolved around food in New York. She is a master composter and, with her family, continues to live, work, study, grow, and compost food in Brooklyn.Jonathan Deutsch is associate professor of culinary arts at Kingsborough Community College and of public health at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author, with Sarah Billingsley, of Culinary Improvisation.Michael Lomonaco is a restaurateur, chef, cookbook author, television host, teacher, and regular contributor to Gourmet, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and Travel & Leisure.

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