OP: Serious Pig (unsigned first printing)
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North Point Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing.
John Thorne, long based in New England, is a determined individualist who stays mainly out of the public eye. He is most widely known for his newsletter, Simple Cooking, which was published from 1983 into the late-2010s.
Serious Pig (1996) is a collection of essays in which Thorne, with the help of his wife, Matt Lewis Thorne, ruminates on his culinary roots from the coast of Maine where he spent summers as a child to Louisiana where he fell in love with Cajun and Creole cuisine as an adult—and everywhere in between.
Of roux he says, “So for a Cajun roux making is, before anything else, an initiation. He or she establishes a right to cook Cajun by persuasive mastery of it, not only in making it, but in being able to defend it, since with Cajun, as with all orally transmitted cuisines, method is defined by a tension between received tradition and the experience of each individual cook.”
Our copy is a Near Fine first printing. Also available in paperback.
