The best American food writing 2018

In this inaugural edition in a new series, Ruth Reichl [collects] pieces originally published in a wide range of venues ... There are odes to dining scenes, like Karen Brooks's two-fisted defense of Portland, Ore., as a great pizza city ... as well as profiles of foodie celebs like Mary H.K. Choi's ... take on ... Christina Tosi and Kushbu Shah's pilgrimage to Ree Drummond's remote Oklahoma eatery. Politics are a constant, with Jane Black's ... 'Revenge of the Lunch Lady' contemplating the policy and culinary implications of free lunch programs in the Trump administration, while Shane Mitchell in 'Who Owns Uncle Ben?' delves into the racial history of rice in America"--Publisher's Weekly, 08/27/2018.