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A Food Lover's Book of Days
Knopf
October 2006
On Sale: October 17, 2006
464 pages
ISBN: 0307264963
EAN: 9780307264961
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter
and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a
charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food
lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the
year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a
champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. Life Is Meals is
rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary
pleasures, and the authors' own memories of successes and
catastrophes.
For instance:
• The menu on
the Titanic on the fatal night
• Reflections
on dining from Queen Victoria, JFK, Winnie-the-Pooh,
Garrison Keillor, and many others
• The
seductiveness of a velvety Brie or the perfect
martini
• How to decide whom to invite to a dinner
party—and whom not to
• John Irving's family recipe
for meatballs; Balzac's love of coffee
• The
greatest dinner ever given at the White House
•
Where in Paris Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had French
onion soup at 4:00 a.m.
• How to cope with acts of
God and man-made disasters in the
kitchen
Sophisticated as well as practical,
opinionated, and indispensable, Life Is Meals is a
tribute to the glory of food and drink, and the joy of
sharing them with others. "The meal is the emblem of
civilization," the Salters observe. "What would one know of
life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be
spent, apart from meals?"
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