Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking , and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook , Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire , John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. I...

In this collection of essays, John Thorne sets out 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), “t...

John Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that makes him a cult favorite of people who like to think about food.

Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" ( Connoisseur ). As the title suggests, it celebrates-and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, ...

In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on the food writers of the past ten years, John Thorne argues that to eat exactly what you ...