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Also by Adam Gopnik:

The Table Comes First, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Angels And Ages, February 2009
Hardcover
Paris to the Moon, September 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
The King in the Window, October 2005
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THE TABLE COMES FIRST
By: Adam Gopnik

Family, France, and the Meaning of Food

Vintage
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0307476960
EAN: 9780307476968
Kindle: B004KPM1EY
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food

From the author of Paris to the Moon, a beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food mania, in search of eating’s deeper truths.
 
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing. With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives? With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts America’s recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes.

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On Point - October 9, 2012