Serious Pig

In this collection of essays John Thorne sets our to explore the origins of his identity as a cook going here (the Maine coast where he''d summered as a child and returned as an adult for a decade''s sojourn) there (southern Louisiana where he was captivated by Creole and Cajun cooking) and everywhere (where he provides a sympathetic reading of such national culinary icons as the hamburger white bread and American cheese and sits down to a big bowl of Texas red). These intelligent searching essays are a passionate meditation on food character and place.