1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die

"This . . . comprehensive guide to the one,zero foods to eat before dying is just that: one,zero foods you NEED to try, urgently. Read . . . and seek" (Anthony Bourdain). "Informative, evocative, and entertaining. It's a pleasure to check off the foods you've eaten and to plan to try the ones you haven't yet enjoyed." —Marcus Samuelsson, cookbook author, chef, owner of Red Rooster Harlem The ultimate gift for the food lover. one,zero Foods to Eat Before You Die is a joyous, informative, dazzling, mouthwatering life list of the world's best food. The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal one,zero . . .Before You Die series, it's the marriage of an irresistible subject with the perfect writer, Mimi Sheraton—award-winning cookbook author, grande dame of food journalism, and former restaurant critic for The New York Times. one,zero Foods fully delivers on the promise of its title, selecting from the best cuisines around the world (French, Italian, Chinese, of course, but also Senegalese, Lebanese, Mongolian, Peruvian, and many more)—the tastes, ingredients, dishes, and restaurants that every reader should experience and dream about, whether it's dinner at Chicago's Alinea the perfect empanada, or a stroll in the markets of Palermo. Joyous, surprising, informative, and described in mouthwatering detail, each entry shines with the passion of one of the world's most celebrated food writers saying: You must try this. Nuts-and-bolts information at the end of each entry tells you where to taste the dish or find the ingredients, and where to go for the best recipes or find further information. Featuring a Tuscan plate of Fritto Misto, Saffron Buns for breakfast in downtown Stockholm, Bird's Nest Soup, a frozen Milky Way, and Black truffles from Le Périgord, this is a celebration of haute and snack, comforting and exotic, hyper-local and the universally enjoyed. "Few people in the world have the experience that Mimi Sheraton brings to the subject of food. I'll be spending the rest of my days knocking off dish by dish in one,zero Foods to Eat Before You Die." —Bobby Flay, chef, restaurateur "Who else would you trust on topics ranging from English jellied eel to hokey pokey ice cream from New Zealand and everything in between? Only the well-seasoned Mimi Sheraton." —Grant Achatz, chef/co-owner Alinea, Next, the Aviary