Best food writing 2014

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For fourteen years, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year's food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year, from a range of voices: food writing stars, James Beard Award winners, writer-chefs, bestselling authors, and up-and-coming bloggers alike. Age of innocence / Jay Rayner -- Are big flavors, destroying the American palate? / Kate Krader -- A toast story / John Gravois -- Five things I will not eat / Barry Estabrook -- Baconomics 101 / David Sax -- The right to eat / JT Torres -- America, your food is so gay / John Birdsall -- Debts of pleasure / John T. Edge -- The dignity of chocolate / Eagranie Yuh -- The indulgence of pickled baloney / Silas House -- Austerity measures / Anna Roth -- Waiting for the 8th / Eli Saslow -- A sorta of chicken that we call fish / Elissa Altman -- Forget the clock, remember your food / Joe Yonan -- Meals from a hunter / Steve Hoffman -- The man machine / Oliver Strand -- Cooking as the cornerstone of a sustainable food system / Kim O'Donnel -- How to boil water / Irvin Lin -- The lions of Bangkok street food / Matt Goulding -- How to cook a turkey / Molly Watson -- And baby make free-for-all / Adam Sachs -- Sense of self / Erin Byers Murray -- The ghosts of cakes past / Monica Bhide -- Bread and women / Adam Gopnik -- The science of the best chocolate chip cookies / J. Kenji López-Alt -- How to cook chicken cutlets, and give yourself a reason to keep living / Albert Burneko -- Smelted / Sara Bir -- A green movement / Jane Black -- The 16.9 carrot / Dan Barber -- Monsanto is going organic in a quest for the perfect veggie / Ben Paynter -- The flavor man / Laura Taxel -- Yellow Dutch / Rich Nichols -- The forgotten harvest / Jack Hitt -- The leading light of pastry / Alex Halberstadt -- Cheapskates / Sarah Henry -- Sherry Yard's sweet independence / Besha Rodell -- A day on Long Island with Alex Lee / Francis Lam -- Savoring the now / John Kessler -- The tao of Bianco / Dave Mondy -- Familiarity breeds content / Frank Bruni -- Everyman's fish / Tom Carson -- The cheese toast incident / Michael Procopio -- Because I can / David Leite -- Solitary man / Josh Ozersky -- Tomato pie / Ann Hood -- The Invasivore's dilemma / Rowan Jacobsen -- Learning how to taste / Daniella Martin -- Seven bald men and a kumquat tree / Amy Gentry -- Fixed menu / Kevin Pang -- Last meals / Brent Cunningham.