{"product_id":"op-serious-pig-signed-first-printing","title":"OP: Serious Pig (signed first printing)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorth Point Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed first printing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSerious Pig\u003c\/em\u003e (1996) is a collection of essays in which Thorne, again with the help of his wife, Matt Lewis Thorne, ruminates on his culinary roots and inspirations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOurs is a Near Fine copy \u003cstrong\u003esigned by both John Thorne and Matt Lewis Thorne\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst printing\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/serious-pig\"\u003epaperback\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"KNOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42525361340549,"sku":"John Thorne with Matt Lewis Thorne","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/thorne_serious_pig.jpg?v=1720276976","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/op-serious-pig-signed-first-printing","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}