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Ohhhhhhhh my GAWD, this book is amazing. I saw it in the display window while walking past B&N at Lincoln Center, came out with it in a bag 15 minutes later.
Written by Susan Meisel and Nathalie Sann and published by Rizzoli, this book offers a breakdown of the best shops in the city by neighborhood with pictures that will have you drooling!
It starts with Manhattan and its sections up to the Upper West Side, then goes on to The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. There are even recipes from some of the proprietors, then indexes by neighborhood, category and recipe! It's full-color, has HUNDREDS of beautiful photograps and is about 260 pages.
I can't wait to trek around and explore some of the places in it that I wasn't aware of, starting with a pickle from Gus's on the Lower East Side. LOL
Gourmet Shops of New York is definitely a must have for the locals and the folks that are planning a trip here. You can read it from cover to cover, make a list a mile long and have at 'em. Amazon reviewers also agree, nothing but 5 star reviews so far!
Has anyone else seen or purchased this book? I did a search but didn't see anything come up that was recent. LUVS IT.
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Sept. 3 & 10 issue on stands now...it doesn't get much better than this; it had me at David Sedaris though.
Also in this issue are Calvin Trillin, John McPhee, Judith Thurman, Adam Gopnik with a piece on Extreme Localism (LOL), Nell Freudenberger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (author of Purple Hibiscus and Half a Yellow Sun), Gary Shteyngart, Anthony Lane and Donald Antrim. New fiction by Lara Vapnyar.
Some of this should be online as well!
www.newyorker.com
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Fantastic review! She has an interesting blog on her site, www.pheobedamrosch.com that is worth checking out as well.
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Has anyone else seen this issue (Aug 16 - 22)? It is great, 40 of New York's top chef participate in an anonymous survey discussing top restaurants, worst restaurants overrated ones, upcoming chefs, their hangouts, what they love and hate about New York diners, etc and it is a terrific read. I'll be back to post some excerpts if no one has, you may still be able to grab a copy if you haven't done so yet!
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Azurite - thanks and that IS a crazy food story!
If I had to pick a favorite short story collection that deals with a lot of food, it would definitely be Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. Mrs. Sen's is my favorite of the nine in that book because it is all about the character longing for the Benagli food she misses from her Calcutta home. While her husband is teaching at the university, she spends her day babysitting and chopping vegetables for dinner and FIENDS for fish to the point of tears, but she cannot drive and is too afraid to really learn. The story culminates when she decides to brave the roads because she MUST have this fish and she gets in an accident before she barely leaves the apartment complex, 11 year old boy in tow. LOL
While searching in hopes of finding the story on a site, I came across this excellent paper on Food Metaphor in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"! Definitely worth a look if you're a big fan of her work.
Now I'm reading The Namesake again while reading Eating India and because both authors are Bengali, the two books complement each other in the most exquisite way. *sigh*
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My Bombay Kitchen, by Niloufer Ichaporia King. Just the origins of her Parsi people makes my whole country's existence feel callow and raw about the elbows. Oh, wait, we are callow and.......(American sigh).
I am becoming something of a Indian Grocery lurker, tho; always just one ounce or two of ajwain seeds away from being thwoked on the head by the elderly storekeeper's broom. She scares me.
Hahah...are you familiar with the fiction of Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance, Family Matters)? He and Thrity Umrigar (Bombay Time, The Skin Between Us) are two of my favorite writers and their stories are always about Parsi families in Bombay. One of the characters in one of Mistry's novels is always fiending for his wife's chicken dhansak, which she makes on Sundays. You'd probably enjoy Eating India, which I posted about the other day, as well.
Today I started Fork It Over by Alan Richman and a friend lent me Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London, which I will start this weekend - I read so many books at the same time!
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Just finished Soul of a Chef, reading Reach of a Chef, and attempting to find a copy of Making of a Chef.
multiwagon~
Did you ever find this? Here it is at Amazon.com for as little as $4.70, used with $3.99 s/h.
I just ordered A RETURN TO COOKING, Ripert and Ruhlman. Anybody familiar with it?
Just finished HAPPY IN THE KITCHEN. Loved it.
I have A Return to Cooking! It's such a beautiful book, you will love it.
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i read the book a month or so ago. i found the parts about the behind-the-scenes at Per Se to be really interesting, but not at all in a salacious way. Just the idea that a restaurant would put the front-of-the-house through what amounted to a training camp and regular drills before opening was reflective of Thomas and Laura's madness (meant in a good way). And she kind of reflects the way you get seduced into their world view (read: drink the kool-aid).
on the other hand, I found her second-half digressions into her affair with another staff member to be at first distracting and then downright annoying. problem is, in the book she doesn't seem that interesting as a person and neither does he ... at least not enough that i would care about what comes off as essentially just another office romance.
eta: and i found it more than a little cringe-worthy that they apparently call each other "chef" in bed. that's taking work too far.
LOL!!! I have to agree with you there. I was awed by the training process too, and liked the rules that she discussed. The best part of the love affair she detailed was the menu at the end! Look forward to hearing the reviewer's thoughts (I'll be happy to do a different one when a new book comes available).
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Alright, alright. I own Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted by Mo'Nique (comedienne, actress, host of VH1's Charm School).
I would lie and say that I got it as a gift, but I bought it because aside from the usual soul food recipes (many of which can be found in G. Garvin's book which is much better) , the writing is pretty funny. My favorite has to be the "morning-after" breakfast options: blueberry pancakes, home fries and 3-cheese scrambled eggs if the man was great in the sack, or a bowl of lumpy oatmeal (with fresh fruit) if he left a lot to be desired. That way you're still feeding him, but also giving him a hint that he has to come correct next time. Hahahah
And I am shedding REAL TEARS over A Man, a Can and a Plan! I've seen that book before!
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Apparently released on April 19, 2007.
Here's the link to the book on Amazon.
In a groundbreaking new anthology, celebrated food writer Molly O'Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth-watering chapter on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot dog; M.F.K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam; William Styron on Southern fried chicken. American writers abroad, like A. J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Craig Claiborne, describe the revelations they found in foreign restaurants; travellers to America, including the legendary French gourmet J. A. Brillat-Savarin, discover such native delicacies as turkey, Virginia barbecue, and pumpkin pie.Recipes, too.
I ran into the book at B&N today, or it ran into me. One way or the other, it came home with me. I am thrilled.
The same thing happened to me, I was rounding a corner at B&N in Chelsea, and there it was on a display table. Couldn't leave without it - I am slowly reading it from cover to cover but haven't picked it up lately. I think I'll read some more of it tomorrow!
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I was in the bookstore last week and came across a new book called Eating India - had to have it. The writing is BEAUTIFUL and I dare you to get past the introduction without wanting to pick up the phone and order something from your favorite restaurant.
I have many of the books mentioned upthread and read many at the same time! Next on my list is The Nasty Bits.
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Hi! I'm new to the site, have been lurking for some time now. I love this board! I am a total bibliophile so I know that this is where I will be spending a lot of time.
That is not what the book is about at ALL, it's actually very good. Phoebe has nothing but the utmost respect for Thomas Keller, Johnathan Benno and her former coworkers and that really is clear in the book - that little bit in the Daily News was taken from the end, where she does do a small amount of dishing but not just bad things either.
I nabbed an advance copy of this at the Book Expo in June (I stalked the Harper Collins booth when I found out about it because of the extraordinary Per Se/TFL threads on HERE!) and will be back with a detailed review! It was a great read, the way the staff is trained is thorough (even waltz classes!), which shows in how people rave about the service - comes out in September and I highly recommend it.
Review to come!
What food-related books are you reading? (2004 - 2015)
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Hey!!! I love her too...I have all of her books, and you reminded me to start reading The Vine of Desire, which I just plucked from my shelf and am doing now (read Sister of My Heart a while ago). I love her poetry also, and even have a college textbook that she edited that is called Multitude: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers. It is a terrific collection.
I just started a thread gushing over the new book I got last night... *swoon* In the meantime I am dipping in all the others I have, especially the American Food Writing anthology!