| Edition |
First Harper Perennial edition. |
| Description |
186 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"An Ecco book." |
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"First published in 1993 by the Ecco Press." |
| Contents |
Eating and drinking / Rose Macaulay -- The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry -- On food and happiness / Charles Simic -- Food mysteries / Joyce Carol Oates -- A religious art / Judith B. Jones -- One way to give thanks / M.F.K. Fisher -- Tempest in a samovar / Barbara Kafka -- Wines / Colette (tr. Derek Coltman) -- The underside of bread : a memoir with food / Michael Frank -- Our hands in the history of it / James Seay -- To Carol Braider's kitchen / William Corbett -- The quest for pie / Michael Dorris -- Delmonico's / Evan Jones -- The farm-restaurant connection / Alice Waters -- What do oysters mean? / Paul Schmidt -- Cocktail hour at the Snake Blood Bar : on the persistence of taboo / Francine Prose -- On murdering eels and laundering swine / Betty Fussell -- On food / Harry Crews -- Mustard / Alexandre Dumas (tr. Alan and Jane Davidson) -- Of gardens, herbs, and wines / Madeline Kamman -- Country cooking from central France : roast boned rolled stuffed shoulder of lamb (farce double) / Harry Mathews -- A dissertation upon roast pig / Charles Lamb -- The vines of San Lorenzo : a proposal / Edward Steinberg. |
| Subject |
Gastronomy.
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Food.
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| Added Author |
Halpern, Daniel, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780061673825 paperback |
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006167382X paperback |
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