Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

Winner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in Writing

Finalist, 2019 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing

Named a Best Food Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, BookRiot, and more
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Semifinalist, Goodreads Choice Awards

â€œThoughtful, well researched, and truly moving. Shines a light on what it means to cook and eat American food, in all its infinitely nuanced and ever-evolving glory.â€
â€”Anthony Bourdain

American food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. But for Edward Lee, who, like Anthony Bourdain or Gabrielle Hamilton, is as much a writer as he is a chef, that first surprising bite is just the beginning. What about the people behind the food? What about the traditions, the innovations, the memories?

A natural-born storyteller, Lee decided to hit the road and spent two years uncovering fascinating narratives from every corner of the country. Thereâ€™s a Cambodian couple in Lowell, Massachusetts, and their efforts to re-create the flavors of their lost country. A Uyghur cafÃ© in New Yorkâ€™s Brighton Beach serves a noodle soup that seems so very familiar and yet so very exoticâ€”one unexpected ingredient opens a window onto an entirely unique culture. A beignet from CafÃ© du Monde in New Orleans, as potent as Proustâ€™s madeleine, inspires a narrative that tunnels through time, back to the first Creole cooks, then forward to a Korean rice-flour hoedduck and a beignet dusted with matcha.

Sixteen adventures, sixteen vibrant new chapters in the great evolving story of American cuisine. And forty recipes, created by Lee, that bring these new dishes into our own kitchens.
Country USA
Manufacturer Artisan
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-04-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Artisan
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-04-17
Format	Kindle eBook

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine

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