The Best Thing I Ever Tasted by Sallie Tisdale

The Best Thing I Ever Tasted by Sallie Tisdale

Eating is the most common way to celebrate in our culture, the most visible way to indulge ourselves. And yet few things have such power over our lives--it controls us as consumers, as social animals, as guilty creatures of appetite. Through a lively mixture of the history of eating, memoir, sociology, and family recipes, Tisdale explores our public and private attitudes about and relationships with food, drawing a rich portrait of the many forces behind our American appetite and demystifying the everyday miracle of eating.

Sallie Tisdale is the author of seven novels, including the James Beard Award finalist Speak Dirty to Me (Doubleday, 1994) and The Greatest Thing I Ever Tasted (Riverhead, 2000). Her autobiography, Walking Westward (Henry Holt, 1992), was selected one of the West's 100 Outstanding Books. Ladies of the Way (HarperCollins, 2006) is her most recent work. Harper's, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, Tricycle, Creative Nonfiction, and Esquire have all published her essays. The Area Arts and Cultural Council Literary Fellowship was awarded to Tisdale in 2013.

She was named a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Outstanding Writer of the Year and awarded an NEA Fellowship in Belle Lettres, a Pushcart Prize, the James Phelan Literary Award, the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, and a Pope Foundation Award. Tisdale's piece Scars won the National Gold Award for Feature Writing from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Several anthologies, including Best American Spiritual Writing, Best Buddhist Writing, and Best American Science Writing, have reproduced her work. She has taught and written as a guest writer at the University of California, Davis, the University of Montana, New York University, the Medill School of Journalism, Antioch University West, Reed College, and the Omega Institute.

In 2010, she served as a judge for the National Book Award. She is a PEN member. She is based in Portland, Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9781573221306
ISBN 10	1573221309
Title	The Best Thing I Ever Tasted
Author	Sallie Tisdale
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2000-03-30
Number of pages	320
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