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Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days
From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay--amateur chefs and terrific hosts--here is a charming, beautifully illustrated food lover'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 Year's Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors' own stories of their triumphs--and catastrophes--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 party--and whom not to
John Irving's family recipe for meatballs; Balzac'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. "The meal is the emblem of civilization," the Salters observe. "What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?"
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 party--and whom not to
John Irving's family recipe for meatballs; Balzac'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. "The meal is the emblem of civilization," the Salters observe. "What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?"
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Nov 2nd, 2010
- Pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.45in - 5.64in - 1.22in - 1.60lb
- EAN: 9780375711398
- Categories: • Essays & Narratives• Entertaining - General• Personal Memoirs
About the Author
James Salter is the author of nine previous books, including the novel A Sport and a Pastime; the collection Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award; and Burning the Days: Recollection. Kay Salter, a journalist and playwright, has written for The New York Times and Food & Wine, among other publications. The Salters live in Colorado and on Long Island.Fabrice Moireau is a graphic artist, illustrator, and set and product designer. He lives in Olivet, France, with his wife and children.
Praise for this book
"Wholly compelling . . . The fruit of a lifetime of informed and opinionated eating." --Alice Waters, Chez Panisse "Thumbs-up . . . I recommend reading it in one fell swoop." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Pays homage to great writers, great meals, great conversations and essential ingredients . . . A bastion of civilization, protection from all kinds of heavy weather." --Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable marriage of food book and life-well-lived memoir . . . This most unusual book is to be savored again and again." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Pays homage to great writers, great meals, great conversations and essential ingredients . . . A bastion of civilization, protection from all kinds of heavy weather." --Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable marriage of food book and life-well-lived memoir . . . This most unusual book is to be savored again and again." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer