1001 Foods to Die For

This is one of those big heavy 1001 books that are full of photographs and slick paper. Since they are compiled by a group of English schoolmates, you have to take them with a grain of salt but then you have to take any book like this with a grain of salt no matter who writes it. Oh, wait a minute. This isn't the English "1001 Foods to Eat before you Die" but a Kansas City upstart compiled by Corby Kummer from contributions by a number of well known food experts like Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, Julia Child, Elizabeth David, Donna Hay, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Diana Kennedy, Nigella Lawson, Claudia Roden, Jane and Michael Stern and Alice Waters (plus a bunch I am unfamiliar with). At the beginning of the list of Contributors, Kummer writes "The original entries were written by the specialist contributors listed below; subsequent versions of the entries may have been altered." Unfortunately no article is attributed to the contributor so one has really very little idea of where it came from and so has no place to go to. A dead end, as it were, which is very frustrating to librarians.
Should all be forgiven because he includes Chiles Rellenos?

Apparently there is a British version of this afterall: 1001 Foods You Must Eat Before You Die, although the cover at amazon says 1001 Foods you Must Taste Before you Die (you wonder who made the change). We must have a taste comparison! The library doesn't have this one, which isn't surprising since the publishing date is September 2008.