Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook

Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David & M.F.K. Fisher" (Connoisseur). As the title suggests, it celebrates--and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, probes, & scrutinizes--a lifelong engagement with the elements of cooking, & elemental cooking from cioppino to kedgeree. John Thorne's curiosity ranges far & wide, from nineteenth-century famine-struck Ireland to the India of the British Raj, from the Italian cucina to the venerable American griddle. Whether on the trail of a mysterious Vietnamese sandwich ("Banh Mi & Me") or "The Best Cookies in the World," whether "Desperately Resisting Risotto" or discovering the perfect breakfast, Thorne is an erudite & intrepid guide who, in unveiling the gastronomic wonders of the world, also reveals us to ourselves. "To think of Thorne as only a food writer is the same as considering Raymond Chandler just a mystery writer." --JIM HARRISON, Esquire "Thorne's company is worth seeking. He comes across as an iconoclast without a mean streak, an amusing but serious searcher after eclectic culinary truths." --WILLIAM RICE, Chicago Tribune.John Thorne is the author of 'Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook' with ISBN 9780865475649 and ISBN 0865475644.