Product Description: This is a book-lover's book about food: about taste, smell, touch, appetite, and all the pleasures of the table. It features 77 poems and prose pieces by some of the world's finest writers, from Basho to Betty Fussell, Colette to Calvin Trillin - all selected and complemented with illustrations by artist/anthologist Bascove, the creator of the best-selling Where Books Fall Open...read more

Collects poetry and prose works by such authors as Octavio Paz, Joyce Carol Oates, Gay Talese, and William Carlos Williams to accompany the compiler's paintings of bridges (view table of contents)