Secret Ingredients The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way  Roger Angell on the art of the martini  Don DeLillo on Jell-O  Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup  Jane Kramer on the writer's kitchen  Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin  Steve Martin on menu mores  Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream  Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation  S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin  Calvin Trillin on New York's best bagelIn this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to "cookery witches," those mysterious cooks who possess "an uncanny power over food," and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl's famous story "Taste," in which a wine snob's palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes's ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Whether you're in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker's fabled eighty-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste.

ISBN:	9780812976410
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:	Modern Library
Published date:	03 Nov 2009
Language:	English
Number of pages:	608
Weight:	648g
Height:	233mm
Width:	158mm
Spine width:	35mm

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