Review: Best Food Writing 2017 by Holly Hughes.

Best Food Writing 2017 Paperback — by Holly Hughes (2017), Da Capo Lifelong Books

I don’t normally make a habit of reviewing “best of” anthologies where there are general food articles. Not that these cannot be great fun and wonderful reads sure to pass the time of your commute or a lazy Sunday. Up until now, I had not read one that made me sit up and take notice. In many cases, they had been filled with articles from food magazines that I had already read and was not too overly jazzed about to read more than once.

There was a section of the anthology that I wanted to speak of the most as it had what I believe to be the greatest impact on me and that was the section titled “Whose food is it anyway?” This section had several articles by various authors on the topic of Culinary Cultural appropriation, and they were all outstanding and worth looking at. (In fact, I think you should.)

While I loved many of the articles that were included in this anthology, I really sat up and took notice of the articles that were in the “WFIIA?” portion of the work. I found that these articles gave me the most to think about and had stayed with me well after I had put the anthology down.

These six articles in this portion of the anthology are part of a growing debate with many opinions that are being…