Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0393239845 ISBN 13 : 9780393239843

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Edited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger J. Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs, and poems, the book is divided into sections such as "Kitchen Practices"; "Food Memory: Identity, Family, Ethnicity"; "Eating: Delight, Disgust, Hunger, Horror"; and "Food Politics." Selections by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O'Neill, Calvin Trillin, and Adam Gopnik, along with authors not usually associated with gastronomy-Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hemingway, Chekhov, and David Foster Wallace-enliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology. "We are living in the golden age of food writing," proclaims Ruth Reichl in her foreword to this savory banquet of literature, a must-have for any food lover. Eating Words shows how right she is.

Revue de presse :

"Eating Words is a remarkable gathering of commentary on every aspect of food from the ritualistic and symbolic to the pragmatic; a wonderfully diverse collection of writers from the renowned and classic (Hemingway, Chekhov, Julia Child) to contemporaries (Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Calvin Trillin, Henry Louis Gates Jr.). There is much for carnivores here, not surprisingly, but surprisingly, there is a good deal here for vegetarians as well. Fascinating reading. A feast of a book!" --Joyce Carol Oates

"Eating Words is a remarkable gathering of commentary on every aspect of food from the ritualistic and symbolic to the pragmatic; a wonderfully diverse collection of writers from the renowned and classic (Hemingway, Chekhov, Julia Child) to contemporaries (Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Calvin Trillin, Henry Louis Gates Jr.). There is much for carnivores here, not surprisingly, but surprisingly, there is a good deal here for vegetarians as well. Fascinating reading. A feast of a book!" --Joyce Carol Oates

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393239845
• ISBN 13: 9780393239843
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512