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

Web Features:

• The authors discuss New York City food on the New York Times blog, the City Room
• Big Apple or Stale Bagel? Test your knowledge of New York City Food!
• Gastropolis featured in the NYT’s round-up of New York City books.
• Read a review from The Wall Street Journal
• Listen to an interview with the editors on WFUV.

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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