Eat, live, love, die selected essays
"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,&...
| Main Author: | Fussell, Betty Harper (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Waters, Alice (author of introduction.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA :
Counterpoint,
[2016]
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Table of 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.