Our fascination with what we eat, its provenance, and its preparation just keeps growing -- and food writing has continued to explode. 

Once again, editor Holly Hughes plumbs magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, and websites for the year's finest culinary prose -- "stories for connoisseurs, celebrations of the specialized, the odd, or simply the excellent" (says Entertainment Weekly). 

Featuring essays and articles from established food writers and rising stars, as well as some literary surprises, Best Food Writing 2012 captures the trends, big stories, and new voices. From going hunting to going vegan, from soup-to-nuts or farm-to-table, there's something for every foodie in the newest edition of this acclaimed series. 

Mick Jagger is something of a paradox: wildly famous but infamously enigmatic. Popular culture portrays him as the Rock Star ne plus ultra - decadent, rebellious, and self-interested - yet Norman reveals a Jagger far more complex and ultimately compelling: a deeply serious musician and songwriter, not only a performer, whose conservative childhood continued to shape and affect his bohemian adulthood. Based on over four years of exhaustive, in-depth research,Mick Jagger is a startlingly original picture of a man we only thought we knew.

From exclusive interviews with those closest to Jagger, such as ex-girlfriends Chrissie Shrimpton and Cleo Sylvestre, to record-straightening revelations about Jagger's infamous 1967 drugs bust and the notorious Altamont concert, Norman's groundbreaking biography crafts a vivid portrait of the real man behind the swagger, little glimpsed and much misunderstood. 

Though one of the world's most instantly recognizable faces, Mick Jagger has sworn never to produce his own memoir. With Mick Jagger, Philip Norman reveals the man behind the myth in an intimate but expansive biography, in which readers will, for the first time, finally get to see how a middle class kid from a London suburb became the Blues-obsessed progenitor of an entire era's culture.  

Author Philip Norman is an English novelist, biographer, journalist, and playwright. He is the author of the bestselling biography John Lennon: The Life, and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation. Norman has also published biographies of Buddy Holly, The Rolling Stones, and Elton John, as well as six works of fiction, and two plays. He lives in London.

Fun fact: Pete Townshend worked as an editor at a major publishing company before turning to music full-time. He writes well, and the ten years he put into this book shows his care.

The Rock & Roll legend comes clean about his life, including his struggles with drugs, sex, and the ghosts of his tumultuous upbringing in this piercing memoir that is also an extremely intimate portrait of an all-time great band as it rocketed to international fame and fortune

In one of the most eagerly anticipated rock autobiographies in recent memory, Pete Townshend, delivers a genuine work of literature that is also a primary source for popular music's greatest epoch.

Challenging, erudite, and rollicking as the man it reveals, Who I Am is a record of an amazing era and of one of the legendary artists who helped shape it.

Pete Townshend is the legendary frontman for The Who, one of the most influential bands of all time. Townshend is responsible for having written over 100 songs and rock operas in the band's important catalogue. The Who's first album, My Generation, went Gold in the UK, and eight more have gone gold and platinum on either side of the Atlantic. Townshend is one of Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Away from music, he has also written essays for Rolling Stone, and in 2005 published the novella The Boy Who Heard Music. He lives in London.