After meeting one of my fave writers recently in NYC, I picked up a copy of Mr. Calvin Trillin’s “Feeding a Yen” and I’m loving it. Just savored a chapter on chowhound.com, and Mr. Trillin’s appreciation of that ground-breaking Web site’s “Alpha Dog” exploration of NYC’s outer bouroughs in search of edible exotica. It makes me so hungry turning these pages.
I mentioned it in a previous entry, but I also need to highly recommend “My Life in France” by Julia Child, cleverly put together by her great nephew, Alex Prud’homme. It’s wonderfully read by Flo Salant Greenberg, who captures Julia’s zest for discovery. Child is dead serious when it comes to getting recipes right, but is also often silly, saying things like “whoppee!” Listening to this inspired me to dive back in to Mastering the Art of French Cooking once again. I’m going to experiment with quenelles this weekend. Whoppee!
What delicious book are you devouring this summer?
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June 13th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
I actually read this back in March, but I thoroughly enjoyed Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl, former critic at the L.A. Times and NYT.
Very interesting to get a glimpse of what restaurant critics go through and the descriptions of food were mouth-watering!
June 16th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I’m almost done with Insatiable, Gael Greene’s memoir — genius stuff — she does Elvis in the first chapter! wanna read the JC book next… but I have Bill Buford’s essays, Heat, in the pile too!
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