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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

by David Remnick (Editor)

Other authors: Woody Allen (Contributor), Roger Angell (Contributor), Julian Barnes (Contributor), Noah Baumbach (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor)43 more, Anthony Bourdain (Contributor), Bill Buford (Contributor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Roald Dahl (Contributor), Peter De Vries (Contributor), Don DeLillo (Contributor), Nora Ephron (Contributor), Louise Erdrich (Contributor), Victor Erofeyev (Contributor), M.F.K. Fisher (Contributor), Adam Gopnik (Contributor), Gabrielle Hamilton (Contributor), Jim Harrison (Contributor), Geoffrey T. Hellman (Contributor), Peter Hessler (Contributor), John Kenney (Contributor), Matthew Klam (Contributor), Jane Kramer (Contributor), Anthony Lane (Contributor), Chang-Rae Lee (Contributor), A. J. Liebling (Contributor), Janet Malcolm (Contributor), Steve Martin (Contributor), Alice McDermott (Contributor), Ben McGrath (Contributor), John McPhee (Contributor), Rebecca Mead (Contributor), Joseph Mitchell (Contributor), Ogden Nash (Contributor), Susan Orlean (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), S. J. Perelman (Contributor), V. S. Pritchett (Contributor), Alex Prud'homme (Contributor), John Seabrook (Contributor), William Shawn (Contributor), Mark Singer (Contributor), James Stevenson (Contributor), Judith Thurman (Contributor), Calvin Tomkins (Contributor), Calvin Trillin (Contributor), Joseph Wechsberg (Contributor)

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Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker’s fabled eighty-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste. There are memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems–ranging in tone from sweet to sour and in subject from soup to nuts. M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” while John McPhee valiantly trails an inveterate forager and is rewarded with stewed persimmons and white-pine-needle tea. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet for still more peculiar reasons. Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for, and Calvin Trillin investigates whether people can actually taste the difference between red wine and white. We journey with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba in the story of a single restaurant, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the arcane practices of Japan’s tofu masters. Closer to home, Joseph Mitchell celebrates the old New York tradition of the beefsteak dinner, and Mark Singer shadows the city’s foremost fisherman-chef. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight.… (more)
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I've been dipping in an out of this four a couple months now. A frankly amazing collection of authors: Bill Buford, M.F.K. Fisher, A.J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, Roger Angell, Dorothy Parker (!), Malcolm Gladwell, Roald Dahl, and many more. So far almost all hits. But, like some essay collections, hard to take in large doses; an essay a week is about right for me.

In the end a little uneven, but on the whole very satisfying. ( )
  JohnNienart | Jul 11, 2021 |
I took my time with this one and dipped in and out over the course of several months. Some incredibly great gems of food writing within, by Joseph Mitchell, A. J. Liebling, Anthony Bourdain, M. F. K. Fisher, John McPhee, John Seabrook, and Roald Dahl, among others. ( )
  JBD1 | Nov 3, 2018 |
Good pieces in here. Some of the early ones run together since they all seem to be about French chefs, gourmands, and restaurants. The fiction is great: Cheever, Erdrich, Delillo. John McPhee's essay on foraging is probably the best. It is McPhee. ( )
  Virginia-A | Dec 21, 2016 |
table of contents: https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/1704872/TOC

scribd has a generous listening preview, and I really enjoyed it!!
  lulaa | Sep 25, 2016 |
I very much enjoyed my first taste (ha) of M.F.K. Fisher, as well as Anthony Lane's "Look Back In Hunger" and John McPhee's piece of foraging. Lane's essay had me giggling helplessly, possibly because it's the most contemporarily resonant one in the book; it always takes me a little while to adjust to the brevity and... brusqueness? of McPhee's writing, but eventually it all kinds of settles into a rhythm and you start to realize he's talking about eating mushrooms and dandelions for breakfast and brewing tea from real mint found in the wild and it's fascinating and oh-so-easy to read. ( )
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Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker’s fabled eighty-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste. There are memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems–ranging in tone from sweet to sour and in subject from soup to nuts. M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” while John McPhee valiantly trails an inveterate forager and is rewarded with stewed persimmons and white-pine-needle tea. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet for still more peculiar reasons. Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for, and Calvin Trillin investigates whether people can actually taste the difference between red wine and white. We journey with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba in the story of a single restaurant, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the arcane practices of Japan’s tofu masters. Closer to home, Joseph Mitchell celebrates the old New York tradition of the beefsteak dinner, and Mark Singer shadows the city’s foremost fisherman-chef. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight.

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