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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025
Bryant Terry and Jaya Saxena
$19

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A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the James Beard Award–winning chef, food justice activist, and bestselling author Bryant Terry.

The innovative and celebrated chef, food activist, and writer Bryant Terry selects the best twenty pieces published in 2024 that celebrate and explore how food and travel shape our culture.

BIO

Bryant Terry is a James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef, author, and educator known for his work in food justice and creating a healthy, sustainable food system.He is the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House and Ten Speed Press, and the inaugural chef in residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco.Terry is also a PhD dropout who holds an MA in history with an emphasis on the African diaspora from NYU.

Jaya Saxena is a Staff Writer at The Toast, and her writing has appeared on The Hairpin, Buzzfeed, Eater, Atlas Obscura, The Daily Dot, Men’s Journal, Mic and others. She is the co-founder of Uncommon Courtesy and the co-author of Dad Magazine. She lives in New York City

[P]  Mariner Books  /  October 21, 2025