Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from the "New York Times"
Author(s): Amanda Hesser
Amanda Hesser 'one of the best of the young food writers' (Jeffrey Steingarten, "Vogue") has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers in the "New York Times Magazine". "Eat, Memory" collects twenty-six of the best stories with recipes to accompany them. Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in an argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn't prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate. Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, Patricia Marx, John Burnham Schwartz, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer and Heidi Julavits, among others.
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"New York Times Magazine food writer Amanda Hesser whips up a delicious banquet of its four-star essays in Eat, Memory. Vanity Fair "...the pieces in this collection are essentially about personal relationships... The tone roams easily from madcap (George Saunders's 'The Absolutely Nothing Diet') to elegiac (Chang-Rae Lee's account of cooking as a means of coping with her mother's cancer), never dallying too long with one affect." Katherine Stirling, The Times Literary Supplement "A collection of funny, moving and intelligent essays, Eat, Memory offers the perfect antidote to fast food and fast living, and reminds us that what we put in our mouths means more to us than just nutrition, that often, in fact, food becomes part of what forms our memories, and therefore, ourselves." Mslexia
Amanda Hesser is the food editor at The New York Times Magazine. Her previous books, Cooking for Mr. Latte and The Cook and the Gardener, have both won the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award.
General Fields
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.21
- : 05 February 2010
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 6 b/w illustrations
- : DQ
- : 208
- : 810.803564
- : Paperback
- : Amanda Hesser