About this title: In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 10-30-07
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 2007
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Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781400065479ISBN:140006547X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN-13:9781400065479ISBN:140006547X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781400065479ISBN:140006547X
Description: New in fine dust jacket. like new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 582 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I really enjoyed the more current essays, although the older ones gave a curious inside to culinary sensations of long ago (like the crazy NYC "Beefsteak Dinners" of the 1930s). John McPhee's account of foraging with Euell Gibbons is absolutely incredible; Gibbons' "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" is on my to-read list."
"I'm really loving this book--it's foodie porn with the tony New Yorker slant. Plus it's essays, so I can finish one or two while waiting for practice to finish, or the lesson to be over, or the pot to boil, without being too cranky that I have to stop. Julia gave me this book because she said it was keeping her from doing her homework."
"This was a lot of fun, New Yorker pieces about (or at least somehow related to) food and wine, from the '20s to the 2000s. Highlights included a long profile of Euell Gibbons, who turns out to be incredibly interesting; several M.F.K. Fisher essays I'd never read; a nice piece about Julia Child; and more than I ever dreamed of knowing about artisanal tofu. There's also a hilarious dinner-party vignette from Dorothy Parker. And then there's the terrific essay from Change Rae Lee about trying sea urchin, and a very funny bit about cookbooks and Martha Stewart, and ... well, basically, there's an embarrassment of riches in this book. All this, plus plenty of cartoons, including the infamous "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it!"
I had never read the legendary A.J. Liebling before, and was disappointed by the essays included here -- he's a product of another time in a way that doesn't translate well for me, unlike Fisher, Joseph Mitchell, and many of the others. But hey, now I've read him and now I know.
The collection ends with a section on short stories -- these are, by and large, pretty good (LOVED the Louise Erdrich), but not quite as compelling as the essays, so finishing up with them was a poor idea because it ends the book on a weak note. And I would have liked more Calvin Trillin, because who wouldn't like more Calvin Trillin? But the book easily deserves five stars."
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