A volume to browse and absorb. - New York Times. The gloriously illustrated Gastronomica Reader is a every bit as good as it looks. - Times Literary Supplement. Designed both to entertain and to provoke, The Gastronomica Reader offers a sumptuous sampling from the Gastronomica Journal’s pages - including essays, poetry, interviews, memoirs, and an outstanding selection of the artwork that has made Gastronomica so distinctive. Informed throughout by a keen sense of the pleasures of eating, tasting, and sharing food,this book will inspire readers to think seriously, widely, and deeply about what goes onto their plates.