"Pot on the Fire" is the latest collection from "the most enticing, serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" (Connoisseur). From nineteenth-century famine-struck Ireland to the India of the British Raj, from the b
In this collection of essays, John Thorne sets our to explore the origins of his identity as a cook, going "here" (the Maine coast, where he'd summered as a child and returned as an adult for a decade's sojourn), "there" (southern Louisiana, where he was
Contains delightful explorations of food and cooking, among which are the collection's namesake essay and many other gems; with black-and-white photographs and illustrations.
