The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard

Birdsall, John

ISBN 10: 0393635716 / ISBN 13: 9780393635713

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0393635716I4N10

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In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmet s complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminates the history of American food in the twentieth century. At a time when stuffy French restaurants and soulless Continental cuisine prevailed, Beard invented something strange and new: the notion of an American cuisine.Informed by previously overlooked correspondence, years of archival research, and a close reading of everything Beard wrote, this majestic biography traces the emergence of personality in American food while reckoning with the outwardly gregarious Beard s own need for love and connection, arguing that Beard turned an unapologetic pursuit of pleasure into a new model for food authors and experts.Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903, Beard would journey from the pristine Pacific Coast to New York s Greenwich Village by way of gay undergrounds in London and Paris of the 1920s. The failed actor turned Manhattan canapé hawker turned author and cooking teacher was the jovial bachelor uncle presiding over America s kitchens for nearly four decades. In the 1940s he hosted one of the first television cooking shows, and by flouting the rules of publishing would end up crafting some of the most expressive cookbooks of the twentieth century, with recipes and stories that laid the groundwork for how we cook and eat today.The Man Who Ate Too Much

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John Birdsall is the author of The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard and the recipient of two James Beard Awards for food and culture writing. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Titel: The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
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