Secret ingredients : : the New Yorker book of food and drink

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. From the Hardcover edition. 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. Dining out: All you can hold for five bucks / Joseph Mitchell -- The finest butter and lots of time / Joseph Wechsberg -- A good appetite / A.J. Liebling -- The afterglow / A.J. Liebling -- Is there a crisis in French cooking? / Adam Gopnik -- Don't eat before reading this / Anthony Bourdain -- A really big lunch / Jim Harrison -- Eating in: The secret ingredient / M.F.K. Fisher -- The trouble with tripe / M.F.K. Fisher -- Nor censure nor disdain / M.F.K. Fisher -- Good cooking: / Calvin Tomkins -- Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane -- The reporter's kitchen / Jane Kramer -- Fishing and foraging: A mess of clams / Joseph Mitchell -- A forager / John McPhee -- The fruit detective / John Seabrook -- Gone fishing / Mark Singer -- On the bay / Bill Buford -- Local delicacies: An attempt to compile a short history of The buffalo chicken wing / Calvin Trillin -- The homesick restaurant / Susan Orlean -- The magic bagel / Calvin Trillin -- A rat in my soup / Peter Hessler -- Raw faith / Burkhard Bilger -- Night kitchens / Judith Thurman -- The pour: Dry martini / Roger Angell -- The red and the white / Calvin Trillin -- The russian god / Victor Erofeyev -- The ketchup conundrum / Malcolm Gladwell -- Tastes funny: But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- Curl up and diet / Ogden Nash -- Quick, hammacher, my stomacher! / Ogden Nash -- Nesselrode to jeopardy / S.J. Perelman -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Peter De Vries -- Notes from the overfed / Woody Allen -- Two menus / Steve Martin -- The zagat history of my last relationship 409(3) / Noah Baumbach -- Your table is ready / John Kenney -- Small plates: Bock / William Shawn -- Diat / Geoffrey T. Hellman -- 4 a.m. / James Stevenson -- Slave / Alex Prud'Homme -- Under the hood / Mark Singer -- Protein source / Mark Singer -- A sandwich / Nora Ephron -- Sea urchin / Chang-Rae Lee -- As the french do / Janet MalColm -- Blocking and chowing / Ben McGrath -- When edibles attack / Rebecca Mead -- Killing dinner / Gabrielle Hamilton -- Fiction: Taste / Roald Dahl -- Two roast beefs / V.S. Pritchett -- The sorrows of gin / John Cheever -- The jaguar sun / Italo Calvino -- There should be a name for it / Matthew Klam -- Sputnik / Don DeLillo -- Enough / Alice McDermott -- The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich -- Bark / Julian Barnes

A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel

In this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. 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. 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.

Publishers Weekly

This volume of food writing from the New Yorkerproves again that famous weekly's reputation for literary and journalistic excellence. An anthology of reporting both recent and vintage, this book takes readers from the oyster beds of Long Island to the bistros of Paris, from artisanal tofu joints in Japan to a Miami restaurant serving Basque food to homesick Cubans. Along the way, lucky readers get to travel to fun food towns like San Francisco and New York, drink martinis with Roger Angell, make fun of menus with Steve Martin and reminisce about Julia Child's winsome public television series. A particularly wonderful profile introduces a wild-foods forager capable of making a 10-course meal from ingredients in the field near his house; he and the author dine on cattails and watercress while canoeing through an icy November river. Another winning profile explores the life and times of a cheese-making nun with a Ph.D. in microbiology. But perhaps the greatest pleasure here is the gorgeous prose of masters like M.F.K. Fisher and A.J. Liebling. Liebling, in particular, knows how to turn meals into stories; though he wrote of Paris before the war, his descriptions are so immediate and enticing that a reader wants to run out and buy the first plane ticket to France. (Nov.)

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Dining out: All you can hold for five bucks / Joseph Mitchell -- The finest butter and lots of time / Joseph Wechsberg -- A good appetite / A.J. Liebling -- The afterglow / A.J. Liebling -- Is there a crisis in French cooking? / Adam Gopnik -- Don't eat before reading this / Anthony Bourdain -- A really big lunch / Jim Harrison -- Eating in: The secret ingredient / M.F.K. Fisher -- The trouble with tripe / M.F.K. Fisher -- Nor censure nor disdain / M.F.K. Fisher -- Good cooking: / Calvin Tomkins -- Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane -- The reporter's kitchen / Jane Kramer -- Fishing and foraging: A mess of clams / Joseph Mitchell -- A forager / John McPhee -- The fruit detective / John Seabrook -- Gone fishing / Mark Singer -- On the bay / Bill Buford -- Local delicacies: An attempt to compile a short history of The buffalo chicken wing / Calvin Trillin -- The homesick restaurant / Susan Orlean -- The magic bagel / Calvin Trillin -- A rat in my soup / Peter Hessler -- Raw faith / Burkhard Bilger -- Night kitchens / Judith Thurman -- The pour: Dry martini / Roger Angell -- The red and the white / Calvin Trillin -- The russian god / Victor Erofeyev -- The ketchup conundrum / Malcolm Gladwell -- Tastes funny: But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- Curl up and diet / Ogden Nash -- Quick, hammacher, my stomacher! / Ogden Nash -- Nesselrode to jeopardy / S.J. Perelman -- Eat, drink, and be merry / Peter De Vries -- Notes from the overfed / Woody Allen -- Two menus / Steve Martin -- The zagat history of my last relationship 409(3) / Noah Baumbach -- Your table is ready / John Kenney -- Small plates: Bock / William Shawn -- Diat / Geoffrey T. Hellman -- 4 a.m. / James Stevenson -- Slave / Alex Prud'Homme -- Under the hood / Mark Singer -- Protein source / Mark Singer -- A sandwich / Nora Ephron -- Sea urchin / Chang-Rae Lee -- As the french do / Janet MalColm -- Blocking and chowing / Ben McGrath -- When edibles attack / Rebecca Mead -- Killing dinner / Gabrielle Hamilton -- Fiction: [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W) / Roald Dahl -- Two roast beefs / V.S. Pritchett -- The sorrows of gin / John Cheever -- The jaguar sun / Italo Calvino -- There should be a name for it / Matthew Klam -- Sputnik / Don DeLillo -- Enough / Alice McDermott -- The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich -- Bark / Julian Barnes. 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. 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 The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. “To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about food is really no different from writing well about life.”— Saveur (Ten Best Books of the Year) Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker—literally. In this indispensable collection, M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. 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. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. A sample of the menu: Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel 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 The New Yorker ’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste. An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.