A true (UK) first edition of a classic. Good old Jeffrey! So funny!!! 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: Headline Book Publishing, 1998. Hardback with Dustjacket. True (UK) First Edition.
Condition: BB. Book and Dust Jacket.
A true (UK) first edition of a classic. Good old Jeffrey! So funny!!! 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: Headline Book Publishing, 1998. Hardback with Dustjacket. True (UK) First Edition.
Condition: BB. Book and Dust Jacket.
