Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days

From the PEN/Faulkner Awardâ‚¬â€œwinning author James Salter and his wife, Kayâ‚¬"amateur chefs and terrific hostsâ‚¬"here is a charming, beautifully illustrated food loverâ‚¬s companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Yearâ‚¬s Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authorsâ‚¬ own stories of their triumphsâ‚¬"and catastrophesâ‚¬"in the kitchen.
For instance:
The menu on the Titanic on the fatal night
Reflections on dining from Queen Victoria, JFK, Winnie the Pooh, Garrison Keillor, and many others
The seductiveness of a velvety Brie or the perfect martini
How to decide whom to invite to a dinner partyâ‚¬"and whom not to
John Irvingâ‚¬s family recipe for meatballs; Balzacâ‚¬s love of coffee
The greatest dinner ever given at the White House
Where in Paris Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had French onion soup at 4:00 a.m.

Sophisticated as well as practical, opinionated, and indispensable, Life Is Meals is a tribute to the glory of food and drink, and the joy of sharing them with others. â‚¬Å“The meal is the emblem of civilization,â‚¬Â the Salters observe. â‚¬Å“What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375711398
Color White
ReleaseDate 2010-11-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375711398

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375711398
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2010-11-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375711398

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days

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