The book recounts four Cook It Raw gatherings in Denmark, Japan, Italy and Finland in lush photography, email exchanges, recipe descriptions and entertaining essays by JeffreySteingarten, Anthony Bourdain and others.
The list includes the best known names in the world of restaurant reviews, such as Gael Greene, JeffreySteingarten, John Mariani and Andrew Knowlton, and Wells took the bronze medal against this elite competition.
I'm down with JeffreySteingarten, Vogue's food writer, who says that the carapace of super-fatty beef that curves around the top of most rib-eye cuts is the best there is (though a case can be made for the tender smaller side of a Porterhouse or T-bone).