The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Steingarten, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375702024 ISBN 13: 9780375702020

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Steingarten Jeffrey

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The food critic for Vogue magazine eats his way around the world in forty amusing, passionate essays that recount his quest for the perfect fat substitute, the best formula for sourdough bread, and other culinary grails. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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of the Julia Child Book Award

A James Beard Book Award Finalist

When Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingarten is "fairly sure that God meant the color blue mainly for food that has gone bad." In this impassioned, mouth-watering, and outrageously funny book, Steingarten devotes the same Zen-like discipline and gluttonous curiosity to practically everything that anyone anywhere has ever called "dinner."

Follow Steingarten as he jets off to sample choucroute in Alsace, hand-massaged beef in Japan, and the mother of all ice creams in Sicily. Sweat with him as he tries to re-create the perfect sourdough, bottle his own mineral water, and drop excess poundage at a luxury spa. Join him as he mounts a heroic--and hilarious--defense of salt, s

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375702024
• ISBN 13: 9780375702020
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528