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Reviews: "I was, of course, honored to be asked to write this essay on food, but also somewhat puzzled, since I completely ceased eating four years ago."
- George Saunders
"Most people think, Scooping ice cream, I could do that. But they don’t understand the complexities, the high-stakes brinkmanship of the modern-day ice cream industry."
-Colson Whitehead
"Growing up, I dream of garlic the way some dream if bright city lights. I had smelled the forbidden vegetable (spice? herb?) during brief trips to Manhattan, roasted garlic coating the poorer sections of town…my ten-year-old mind reeling with flavor and summertime heat."
- Gary Shteyngart
Description: The sound of fat snapping in a pan sets the mood of a place; the hurried peeling of carrots or a sink of abandoned dishes suggests the pressures of everyday life. Food is, in fact, the most familiar and universal medium in our lives.
Everyone has a great food story to tell, and during her tenure as the New York Times Magazine’s food editor, Amanda Hesser show-cased the food-inspired recollections of some of America’s leading writers. Eat, Memory collects the best 26 of those stories and the recipes that accompany them. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her boyfriend over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn’t prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins considers his relationship with a fish he once ate. Food also figures into a misbegotten lunch, a chef’s deceit, a state of paranoia, and even a small miracle. Contents: Introduction • Illusions • Paris Match - Ann Patchett • The Great Carrot Caper - Dan Barber • The Fish - Billy Collins • The Squeamish American - Tom Perrotta • The Absolutely No-Anything Diet - George Saunders • Discoveries • The Sixth Sense - Gary Shteyngart • The Dining Room Wars - R W Apple Jr • I Scream - Colson Whitehead • Orange Crush - Yiyun Li • Michelin Man - James Salter • Struggles • A Not-So-Simple Plan - Patricia Marx • The Sauce and the Flury - Julia Child with Alex Prud’ Homme • Bean There - Tucker Carlson • Home Turf - Kiran Desai • Line of Sight - Gabrielle Hamilton • Loss • Expatriate Games - John Burnham Schwartz • Inward Bound - Chang-Rae Lee • Our Lady of Lawson - Pico Iyer • American Dreams - Jon Robin Baitz • Compliments of the Nurse - Dawn Drzal • Coming Home • Turning Japanese - Heidi Julavits • A Taste of Home - Manil Suri • Ghosts of Passovers Pasts - Ana Winger • Eau God - Henry Alford • Family Menu - Allen Shawn • Crossing to Safety - Dorothy Allison ISBN - 9780393067637
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Pages : 208
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