The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003)

by Dean Faulkner Wells (Editor)

Other authors: Lee K. Abbott (Contributor), Rudolfo Anaya (Contributor), R.W. (Johnny) Apple, Jr. (Contributor), James A. Autry (Contributor), Howard Bahr (Contributor) — 132 more, Dave Barry (Contributor), Rick Bass (Contributor), Pinckney Benedict (Contributor), John Berendt (Contributor), Jason Berry (Contributor), Amy Bloom (Contributor), Sheila Bosworth (Contributor), Mark Bowden (Contributor), T.C. Boyle (Contributor), John Ed Bradley (Contributor), Dee Alexander Brown (Contributor), Larry Brown (Contributor), Rosellen Brown (Contributor), Sandra Brown (Contributor), Christopher Buckley (Contributor), Jimmy Buffett (Contributor), Barbara Bush (Contributor), Jack Butler (Contributor), Bebe Moore Campbell (Contributor), Philip Caputo (Contributor), Mark Childress (Contributor), Sandra Cisneros (Contributor), Bobby Cleveland (Contributor), Rick Cleveland (Contributor), Andrei Codrescu (Contributor), Edward Cohen (Contributor), Pat Conroy (Contributor), Patricia Cornwell (Contributor), Sarah Crichton (Contributor), Nicholas Dawidoff (Contributor), Pete Dexter (Contributor), John Dufresne (Contributor), Wylene Dunbar (Contributor), Tony Earley (Contributor), John T. Edge (Contributor), Clyde Edgerton (Contributor), John Egerton (Contributor), Louise Erdrich (Contributor), Eli Evans (Contributor), Beth Ann Fennelly (Contributor), Ann Fisher-Worth (Contributor), Fannie Flagg (Contributor), Horton Foote (Contributor), Tom Franklin (Contributor), Jonathan Franzen (Contributor), Patty Friedmann (Contributor), David Galef (Contributor), George Garrett (Contributor), Kaye Gibbons (Contributor), Ellen Gilchrist (Contributor), Nikki Giovanni (Contributor), Allan Gurganus (Contributor), David Guterson (Contributor), Jim Harrison (Contributor), William Harrison (Contributor), David Haynes (Contributor), Beth Henley (Contributor), Tony Hillerman (Contributor), Jere Hoar (Contributor), Kenneth Holditch (Contributor), Lisa Neumann Howorth (Contributor), Jospehine Humphreys (Contributor), Gish Jen (Contributor), Thom Jones (Contributor), Terry Kay (Contributor), William J. Kennedy (Contributor), Cassandra King (Contributor), Steve Kluger (Contributor), Jim Lehrer (Contributor), Kate Lehrer (Contributor), Elmore Leonard (Contributor), Alan Lightman (Contributor), Reeve Lindbergh (Contributor), Norman Lockman (Contributor), Beverly Lowry (Contributor), David Madden (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), Guy Martin (Contributor), Bobbie Ann Mason (Contributor), Jill McCorkle (Contributor), Elizabeth McCracken (Contributor), Jay McInerney (Contributor), Wesley McNair (Contributor), Elizabeth Mitchell (Contributor), Barry Moser (Contributor), Howard Frank Mosher (Contributor), Jane Mullen (Contributor), Howard Norman (Contributor), Gloria Norris (Contributor), Tim O’Brien (Contributor), Robert O’Connor (Contributor), Stewart O’Nan (Contributor), P.J. O’Rourke (Contributor), Chris Offutt (Contributor), Ann Patchett (Contributor), Cathie Pelletier (Contributor), Jayne Anne Phillips (Contributor), Thomas Hal Phillips (Contributor), Tom Piazza (Contributor), Padgett Powell (Contributor), E. Annie Proulx (Contributor), Anna Quindlen (Contributor), Howell Raines (Contributor), Anne Rapp (Contributor), Julia Reed (Foreword), Mark Richard (Contributor), Tim Sandlin (Contributor), Cynthia Shearer (Contributor), Louise Shivers (Contributor), Anne Rivers Siddons (Contributor), Lee Smith (Contributor), Darcey Steinke (Contributor), Clifton L. Taulbert (Contributor), Robert Love Taylor (Contributor), Adriana Trigiani (Contributor), Nathaniel Tripp (Contributor), Lily Tuck (Contributor), Anne Tyler (Contributor), John Underwood (Contributor), William T. Vollmann (Contributor), Anthony Walton (Contributor), Linton Weeks (Contributor), Lawrence Wells (Contributor), Lawrence Wells (Contributor), Lawrence Wells (Contributor), Kate Wheeler (Contributor), Bailey White (Contributor), Curtis Wilkie (Contributor), Miller Williams (Contributor), Stephen Caldwell Wright (Contributor), Steve Yarbrough (Contributor), Shay Youngblood (Contributor)

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Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America. Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late, great Bernard Malamud share space with columnists Dave Barry, P. J. O'Rourke, and Christopher Buckley, with journalists and novelists Andrei Codrescu, Anna Quindlen, and John Berendt, and with poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros. The interspersing of recipes from older and younger generations reveals cookery as creatively diverse as the writings from David Guterson, T. C. Boyle, Elizabeth McCracken, and former First Lady Barbara Bush. This unusually tangy assortment of more than 150 recipes runs the gamut from tofu to heart-clogging chili. Writers play fast and loose with ingredients and forewarn readers planning to try them that some of the most seductive recipes are loaded with cholesterol. With such temptations as "Thighs of Delight," "Crevettes Désir," a "sexy spaghetti sauce," and a lemon icebox pie that allegedly elicits proposals of marriage, the recipes-and stories revealing their origins-is enticing, bizarre, and promisingly tasty. The collection gives particular emphasis to contemporary southern writers-Padgett Powell, Jack Butler, Larry Brown, Ellen Gilchrist, and Josephine Humphreys, among others, although their recipes are often far from being quintessentially "Southern." Scintillating with writerly antics and witty histories as transfixing as the recipes themselves, The New Great American Writers Cookbook is not just for daring cooks. It's also a collector's item for food-doting lovers of American literature. Dean Faulkner Wells lives and writes in Oxford, Mississippi. She is the editor of The Great American Writers Cookbook, The Best of Bad Faulkner, The Great American Politicians Cookbook, and Ghosts of Rowan Oak. Her work has been published in the Paris Review, Parade, Playboy, Ladies' Home Journal, Southern Living, and other periodicals. Julia Reed is a senior writer at Vogue and a contributor to the New York Times magazine, writing about food.… (more)

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Yes, yes, I read cookbooks cover to cover sometimes. Especially when they are as funny as this one. There are some actual usable recipes in here (umpteen ways to make chili), but many of the contributors were having too much fun writing to pay attention to the science of cooking, and I wouldn't try the Flannery O'Connor chili, for instance ("take 1 whole boneless peacock..."), which was submitted by Stewart O'Nan; nor do I think much of William Harrison's method for catching the timber rattler for camp stew (but actually, the stew sounds good!). Many of these are simply hilarious. And then there were the authors who declined to send a recipe, but ended up in the book anyway --Rita Mae Brown, who wrote "My cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, is writing a cookbook for cats, but I don't think dried mole would be appetizing." Or Dean Koontz, who declared "I cook no better than Mr. Toad drove his motor car..." I didn't actually count, but it does seem that Southern writers might be in the overwhelming majority here, which wouldn't be surprising, given that Ms. Wells lived in Oxford, MS, and was a great friend and mentor to many, many authors. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Wells, Dean Faulkner	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Abbott, Lee K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Anaya, Rudolfo	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Apple, R.W. (Johnny), Jr.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Autry, James A.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bahr, Howard	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Barry, Dave	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bass, Rick	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Benedict, Pinckney	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Berendt, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Berry, Jason	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bloom, Amy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bosworth, Sheila	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bowden, Mark	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Boyle, T.C.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bradley, John Ed	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Dee Alexander	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Larry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Rosellen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Sandra	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Buffett, Jimmy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bush, Barbara	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Butler, Jack	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Campbell, Bebe Moore	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Caputo, Philip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Childress, Mark	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Giovanni, Nikki	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gurganus, Allan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Guterson, David	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Harrison, Jim	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Jones, Thom	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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King, Cassandra	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Martin, Guy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Norris, Gloria	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
O’Brien, Tim	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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O’Nan, Stewart	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Offutt, Chris	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Patchett, Ann	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Powell, Padgett	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Proulx, E. Annie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America. Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late, great Bernard Malamud share space with columnists Dave Barry, P. J. O'Rourke, and Christopher Buckley, with journalists and novelists Andrei Codrescu, Anna Quindlen, and John Berendt, and with poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros. The interspersing of recipes from older and younger generations reveals cookery as creatively diverse as the writings from David Guterson, T. C. Boyle, Elizabeth McCracken, and former First Lady Barbara Bush. This unusually tangy assortment of more than 150 recipes runs the gamut from tofu to heart-clogging chili. Writers play fast and loose with ingredients and forewarn readers planning to try them that some of the most seductive recipes are loaded with cholesterol. With such temptations as "Thighs of Delight," "Crevettes Désir," a "sexy spaghetti sauce," and a lemon icebox pie that allegedly elicits proposals of marriage, the recipes-and stories revealing their origins-is enticing, bizarre, and promisingly tasty. The collection gives particular emphasis to contemporary southern writers-Padgett Powell, Jack Butler, Larry Brown, Ellen Gilchrist, and Josephine Humphreys, among others, although their recipes are often far from being quintessentially "Southern." Scintillating with writerly antics and witty histories as transfixing as the recipes themselves, The New Great American Writers Cookbook is not just for daring cooks. It's also a collector's item for food-doting lovers of American literature. Dean Faulkner Wells lives and writes in Oxford, Mississippi. She is the editor of The Great American Writers Cookbook, The Best of Bad Faulkner, The Great American Politicians Cookbook, and Ghosts of Rowan Oak. Her work has been published in the Paris Review, Parade, Playboy, Ladies' Home Journal, Southern Living, and other periodicals. Julia Reed is a senior writer at Vogue and a contributor to the New York Times magazine, writing about food.

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