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The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

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An edition of Secret Ingredients (2007)

Secret Ingredients

The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
DAVID REMNICK
ix
DINING OUT
All You Can Hold for Five Bucks
JOSEPH MITCHELL
3
The Finest Butter and Lots of Time
JOSEPH WECHSBERG
14
A Good Appetite
A.J. LIEBLING
30
The Afterglow
A.J. LIEBLING
46
Is There a Crisis in French Cooking?
ADAM GOPNIK
65
Don't Eat Before Reading This
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
83
A Really Big Lunch
JIM HARRISON
90
EATING IN
The Secret ingredient
M.F.K. FISHER
103
The Trouble with Tripe
M.E.K. FISHER
109
Nor Censure Nor Disdain
M.F.K. FISHER
115
Good Cooking
CALVIN TOMKINS
121
Look Back in Hunger
ANTHONY LANE
148
The Reporters Kitchen
JANE KRAMER
159
FISHING AND FORAGING
A Mess of Clams
JOSEPH MITCHELL
177
A Forager
JOHN McPHEE
188
The Fruit Detective
JOHN SEABROOK
229
Gone Fishing
MARK SINGER
241
On the Bay
BILL BUFORD
259
LOCAL DELICACIES
An Attempt to Compile a Short History of the Buffalo Chicken Wing
CALVIN TRILLIN
277
The Homesick Restaurant
SUSAN ORLEAN
285
The Magic Bagel
CALVIN TRILLIN
297
A Rat in My Soup
PETER HESSLER
303
Raw Faith
BURKHARD BILGER
309
Night Kitchens
JUDITH THURMAN
323
THE POUR
Dry Martini
ROGER ANGELL
339
The Red and the White
CALVIN TRILLIN
345
The Russian God
VICTOR EROFEYEV
353
The Ketchup Conundrum
MALCOLM GLADWELL
365
TASTES FUNNY
But the One on the Right
DOROTHY PARKER
381
Curl Up and Diet
OGDEN NASH
386
Quick, Hammacher, My Stomacher!
OGDEN NASH
387
Nesselrode to Jeopardy
S.J. PERELMAN
389
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
PETER DE VRIES
398
Notesfrom the Overfed
WOODY ALLEN
402
Two Menus
STEVE MARTIN
406
The Zagat History of My Last Relationship
NOAH BAUMBACH
409
Your Table Is Ready
JOHN KENNEY
412
SMALL PLATES
Bock
WILLIAM SHAWN
419
Diat
GEOFFREY T. HELLMAN
421
4 A.M.
JAMES STEVENSON
425
Slave
ALEX PRUD'HOMME
428
Under the Hood
MARK SINGER
431
Protein Source
MARK SINGER
434
A Sandwich
NORA EPHRON
437
Sea Urchin
CHANG-RAE LEE
440
As the French Do
JANET MALCOLM
443
Blocking and Chowing
BEN McGRATH
447
When Edibles Attack
REBECCA MEAD
450
Killing Dinner
GABRIELLE HAMILTON
453
FICTION
Taste
ROALD DAHL
459
Two Roast Beefs
V.S. PRITCHETT
474
The Sorrows of Gin
JOHN CHEEVER
491
The jaguar Sun
ITALO CALVINO
506
There Should Be a Name for It
MATTHEW KLAM
523
Sputnik
DON DeLILLO
537
Enough
ALICE McDERMOTT
545
The Butcher's Wife
LOUISE ERDRICH
552
Bark
JULIAN BARNES
572

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809'.933559
Library of Congress
PN6071.G3N49

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xv, 582 pages
Number of pages
583

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25998442M
ISBN 10
081297641X
ISBN 13
9780812976410
LCCN
2007014490
OCLC/WorldCat
191925696
Goodreads
62348792

Work Description

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.

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