Even as Jim Harrison was creating such contemporary classics as Legends of the Fall, he was writing some of the best essays on food around. Originally appearing in such magazines as Esquire, the texts collected here—enthusiastic and erudite, sly and even madcap—include "Unmentionable Cuisine," "The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks," "Repulsion and Grace," "The Tugboats of Costa Rica," "Thirty-Three Angles on Eating French," and "What Have We Done with the Thighs?"