Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts

All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt

In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan fish soup, a bean curd Thanksgiving turkey or potentially toxic crème brulee, a rotating cast of characters learns how to honor the past, how to realize you're not in love with someone any more, and how to forgive. These women and men meet and eat and love, leave and drink and in the end, come together in Seattle as they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink.

Kurlansky brings a keen eye and unerring sense of humanity to these stories. And throughout, his love and knowledge of food shows just how important a role what we eat plays in our lives.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 11/02/2010
ISBN: 9781594484889
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.61h x 5.28w x 0.63d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
Library Journal 09/15/2010 pg. 67
Booklist 10/15/2010 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2010 pg. 8