Eat, live, love, die : selected essays / Betty Fussell ; introduction by Alice Waters.

Author
Fussell, Betty Harper [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
Description
xvi, 298 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    "Celebrating the life of this extraordinary woman, a selected anthology collects 50 years worth of the award-winning author's essays on food, travel and the arts, which have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, Saveur and Vogue,"--Amazon.com.
    Contents
    • Food is...Eating my words
    • CULTURES
    • If you lack turtles try buffalo hump
    • American the bountiful
    • True grits
    • When corn was king
    • Corn porn
    • the cowboy and the machine
    • Hamburgers
    • All about oysters
    • Absolutely smashing
    • J-E-L-L-O
    • 4-F food
    • The artful cafeteria
    • Class action
    • Romancing the stove
    • PEOPLE
    • Elizabeth David 1914-1992
    • The prime of M.F.K. Fisher
    • Great American taste: Claiborne, Child, Beard
    • James Beard, American icon
    • The greening of Alice Waters
    • Grand Dame of Virginia cooking: Edna Lewis
    • Breaking bread with Africa: Marcus Samuelsson
    • The Count of Cuisine: Jean-Georges Vongerichten
    • PLACES
    • The beautiful birds of Bresse
    • Rich, robust, and rewarding Normandy
    • Umbrian truffles and game
    • Festival of the flowering almond
    • Tracking Cortés in Mexico
    • Bahia black and white
    • Turning 60 at the top of the world
    • The surviving Galápagos
    • China solo
    • FAMILY
    • The eyes have it
    • Thanatopsis '83
    • My daughter the painter
    • My son the bodybuilder
    • Nostalgia: salad days
    • Love and mayonnaise
    • Home free: of keepsakes and God pots
    • On murdering eels and laundering swine
    • Earning her food
    • Food says...A is for apple.
    ISBN
    • 9781619027855 ((hardcover))
    • 1619027852 ((hardcover))
    • 9781640090118 ((paperback))
    • 1640090118 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016020225
    OCLC
    953867253
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