The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025
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Beschreibung des Verlags
“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection.” The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of stories that refine and revitalize our relationship to taste, place, and the narratives that we build around them. From tracing the history and endurance of heirloom Laotian rice to investigating how foraging is transforming a city’s restaurant culture, to meditating on the significance of Indigenous communities reclaiming their ancestral lands, these works reveal how food and travel are never simply about what’s on the plate or where we go—they are about history, identity, and the power of storytelling itself.
THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD AND TRAVEL WRITING 2025 INCLUDES: MELISSA BRODER • LIGAYA MISHAN • JEFF GORDINIER • REEM KASSIS • KAYLA STEWART • LEE ANDERSON • AND OTHERS
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Identity politics and social justice are on the menu in this hit-or-miss installment of Mariner's annual anthology of the year's best culinary and travel writing. Noting that "any discussion of food (or travel) that ignores power is incomplete," editor Terry (Black Food) highlights themes of resistance, survival, queerness, and "the politics of pleasure." Some of the essays explore sociocultural material with aplomb, including John Paul Brammer's memoir of eating rattlesnake as part of his raucous coming of age as a gay boy in Oklahoma, and Henry Wismayer's withering, incisive critique of the banality of modern tourism. Others amount to stolid soapboxing; Ayurella Horn-Muller, for example, hammers home the irony that some American farmworkers are food insecure, proving mostly that poorly paid people are poor without revealing much more. Some of the best essays focus raptly on the food, among them Giri Nathan's shell-shocked homage to Ugly Baby, a Thai restaurant in Brooklyn known for its bizarre, searingly hot dishes. ("In Ugly Baby's strange crucible, all my rules are suspended: I ate brain, and would probably eat human if it were wrapped in a banana leaf and sold to me with deceitful slivers of lemongrass, kra pow, and kaffir lime leaves.") The result is a hodgepodge of the delectable and the dreary.
