This was a thoroughly enjoyable book. Glad my daughter picked it up at the library. Looking forward to 2019 Best of American Food Writing. ( )

There’s something -- surely, several somethings -- for everyone in this anthology of 28 essays, which are nominally about food but also necessarily about history, travel, politics, culture and agriculture.

Plus, my favorite aspect of anthologies is their exposure to writers (and publications) that are new-to-me. Here, I found two especially memorable writers to follow: Marissa Higgins (from her memoir-ish essay about her grandmother, “The Struggle of ‘Eating Well’ When You’re Poor”); and Chris Offutt (with his hilarious -- and tender -- narrative voice in “The Country Sausage That’s Going to Town”).

And there’s more: an appendix listing about 100 more “Notable” essays, seven of which I’ve marked to look up.

(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.) ( )