Look at the bite taken out of the dustjacket - what a fun idea!!! Vogue US’s resident food writer for decades, Steingarten is a clever, well-researched, entertaining, funny, opinionated and excellent writer. As full of ideas as opinions, this often perceptive book is a collection of things that mostly appeared in the pages of Vogue and it is brilliant. When I read it, I NEARLY lost interest most of the way through his dietary stuff early in the book (although it is still fundamentally very interesting) and then with a twitch upon the thred, he pulled me back in with some brilliant, brilliant writing about his travels in Japan, Italy, Alsace and loads of other stuff too. I’ve banged a picture of a page early in the book where, writing in the late 1980’s, he completely predicts the advent of Deliveroo/Doordash etc and the shift in eating patterns their existence signifies. Extraordinary.
Publisher/Published: Knopf, 1997 Hardback with Dust Jacket. True First Edition.
Condition: Very Good - Book and Dust Jacket, BUT someone called ‘A.M. Judith Jordan’ has written her name in the front of the book (see pic) which I `always rather like, part of the astory of the thing innit, but I know some people think it unacceptable. If you do, don’t buy this and you’ll be in Dicky’s meadow.
Look at the bite taken out of the dustjacket - what a fun idea!!! Vogue US’s resident food writer for decades, Steingarten is a clever, well-researched, entertaining, funny, opinionated and excellent writer. As full of ideas as opinions, this often perceptive book is a collection of things that mostly appeared in the pages of Vogue and it is brilliant. When I read it, I NEARLY lost interest most of the way through his dietary stuff early in the book (although it is still fundamentally very interesting) and then with a twitch upon the thred, he pulled me back in with some brilliant, brilliant writing about his travels in Japan, Italy, Alsace and loads of other stuff too. I’ve banged a picture of a page early in the book where, writing in the late 1980’s, he completely predicts the advent of Deliveroo/Doordash etc and the shift in eating patterns their existence signifies. Extraordinary.
Publisher/Published: Knopf, 1997 Hardback with Dust Jacket. True First Edition.
Condition: Very Good - Book and Dust Jacket, BUT someone called ‘A.M. Judith Jordan’ has written her name in the front of the book (see pic) which I `always rather like, part of the astory of the thing innit, but I know some people think it unacceptable. If you do, don’t buy this and you’ll be in Dicky’s meadow.
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