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

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ISBN 10 : 0393353516 ISBN 13 : 9780393353518

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2017

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 Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast 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 "Food Writing Through History," "At the Family Hearth," "Hunger Games: The Delight and Dread of Eating," "Kitchen Practices," and "Food Politics." Selections from writings by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O'Neill, Calvin Trillin, and Adam Gopnik, along with works by 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 preface 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: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393353516
• ISBN 13: 9780393353518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Éditeur: Gilbert Sandra M., Porter Roger J.