Bite by Bite: Nourishments and JamboreesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature When food or drink is mentioned in an essay, the mind races and rushes for associations and remembrances. In most gastronomical writing, essays about food often have a subtext, a layering, a flavor tinged with grief, joy, shame, desire, or