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Eating, November 2009
Hardcover
Knopf
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 1400042968
EAN: 9781400042968
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman
Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow,
among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of
such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck,
and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his
eventful life, beginning with his childhood summers in
Maine, where his decision to improve upon his grandmother’s
chicken pot pie led to a lifetime at the stove.From the
great restaurants of postwar Paris to the narrow streets of
New York’s Chinatown today; from a New Year’s dinner aboard
the old Ile de France with Buster Keaton to an evening at
New York’s glamorous “21” restaurant with the dreaded Roy
Cohn; from Chinese omelettes with the great Jane Jacobs at
the edge of the Arctic Ocean to a lobster dinner with the
Mailers on Cape Cod, as well as a warning to examine the
chair before you sit down to dinner with W. H. Auden, this
delicious book celebrates a lifetime of pleasure in cooking
and eating well.The author agrees with the Greek philosopher
Heraclitus that you can never step in the same river twice,
that every act is unique and so is every dish. In Jason
Epstein’s hands, rather than being presented in the usual
rigid formula, recipes unfold as stories that he would tell
a friend in stove-side conversation. And as Epstein
demonstrates his personal touches in putting a dish
together, he inspires his readers to be creative.A rich and
provocative book, Eating will whet the appetites of all who
love good food and delightful company.
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