Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Cookery / food & drink etc

ANYTHING THAT MOVES

Dana Goodyear

Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture

A new book that captures the raucous, strange complexity of contemporary American food culture.

This is a universe populated by self-taught butchers, insect-eaters, California chefs who serve endangered species, New York chefs who serve breast-milk cheese—a cast of characters, in other words, who flirt with danger, taboo, and disgust in pursuit of the sublime. Dana Goodyear is a staff writer for the New Yorker. She teaches at the University of Southern California and is co-founder and co-president of Figment, a youth-oriented mobile platform for reading and writing fiction.

Available products
Book Published 2013-11-14 by Riverhead
Book Published 2013-11-14 by Riverhead

Comments

In Anything That Moves, Dana Goodyear takes as her subject the outer edges and extremes of American food culture, and shows us, with grace, quiet humor, and poetic precision, how closely the weird mirrors the typical. Reporting on the margins of food culture, she reveals much about the broader comedy of manners and morals in American life.

Dana Goodyear is one of the most complete and authoritative voices in food journalism today. Anything That Moves so accurately describes the remaking of our modern food culture in America that I swear I can taste it. The immense social change movement surrounding food in our country requires serious thought and intelligent perspective, however telling those stories, especially the ones from the fringe, demands a writer’s touch that is entertaining as well as inspiring. Goodyear threads that needle perfectly, creating an important book and a delightfully fun read. I loved this book!

Dana is the possessor of a gentle, almost demure prose style. Today's best-known food writers tend to be noisy boys; her soothing sentences are a balm. Read more...