2011, ISBN: 9780307399014

Transplanted Canadian, "New Yorker "writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illumin… Mehr…

Transplanted Canadian, "New Yorker "writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now. Media >, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]<

2011, ISBN: 9780307399014

Transplanted Canadian, "New Yorker "writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illumin… Mehr…

Transplanted Canadian, "New Yorker "writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now. Media >, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]<

2011, ISBN: 030739901X

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[EAN: 9780307399014], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf Canada, Toronto], FOOD HABITS SOCIAL ASPECTS CULINARY WRITING ESSAYS AND DRINK GASTRONOMY PARIS, Jacket, (CAD) Stated first edit… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780307399014], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf Canada, Toronto], FOOD HABITS SOCIAL ASPECTS CULINARY WRITING ESSAYS AND DRINK GASTRONOMY PARIS, Jacket, (CAD) Stated first edition. No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket, Boards, 293pp. This is a collection of essays on food and food habits, looking at the USA, charting the recent and rapid evolution of Americans from aware eaters to manic gastronomes. There is a newspaper clipping of a review of the book laid into the book. (1.8 JM FO 37/4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"<

ISBN: 9780307399014

Knopf Canada. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex libra… Mehr…

Knopf Canada. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, thatll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Knopf Canada<