| Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant Contributor(s): Myint, Anthony (Author), Leibowitz, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936365154 ISBN-13: 9781936365159 Publisher: McSweeney's OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - American - California Style - Cooking | History - Cooking | Essays & Narratives |
| Dewey: 641.597 |
| LCCN: 2011284139 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.2" W x 10.1" (2.55 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it's also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction. Like Mission Street Food itself, this book is more than one thing: it's a cookbook featuring step-by-step photography and sly commentary, but it's also the memoir of a madcap project that redefined the authors' marriage and a city's food scene. Along with stories and recipes, you'll find an idealistic business plan, a cheeky manifesto, and thoughtful essays on issues ranging from food pantries to fried chicken. Plus, a comic. Ultimately, Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant presents an iconoclastic vision of cooking and eating in twenty-first century America. |