Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (Modern Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679601422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A man of Rabelaisian appetite, with the exquisite palate of the true gastronome and the literary flair to match, A.J. --Stephanie Gold. Liebling (1904-1963) was a formidable eater and a remarkable man, and his nostalgic recitation of his years and meals in Paris is a pleasure to read, dream on, and drool about. As a means of savoring a love affair with Paris, sparking an interest in a trip to France, restructuring your priorities for the trip you've already planned, or gearing up on the flight over for the gastronomic debauches to come, Liebling is unsurpassed. Liebling recounts how to dine superbly without being lead astray by too much money, and he digresses magnificently on the evils of abstemiousness ("No sane man can afford to dispense wi
Other Liebling titles available from North Point Press are Between Meals, The Honest Rainmaker, and The Neutral Corner: Uncollected Boxing Essays.. A.J. Liebling joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935, where his "Wayward Press" columns became a model of fine journalistic writing
I Wanted to Love This. I wanted this to be an informative diversion by a master prose stylist. I wanted it to be M.F.K. Fisher meets Ring Lardner in Paris for drinks and a blow-out meal.I wanted it to be a fun read.It just isn't any of that. After a few sentences, the pages begin to give off a musty smell. Then there's the self-destruction of constant over-eating and drinking which eventually ended in his death at age 59.One star for the description of Lillian Russell.. "A Taste for Life." according to Bernard Chapin. I have to say first of all that I'm a sucker for all of the "Paris in the early part of the twentieth century" literature. I love Celine and Miller, but my favorite was Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Well, Between Meals is no A Moveable Feast but it certainly is a high quality read that I can unquestionably recommend to you.Liebling, make no mistake, is a top notch writer and his sentence structure, use of metaphor, and style have much to offer aspiring wordsmiths. He has an eye for the essential and this is particularly true if you're at all like me as far as food is concerned. Liebling is a true gourman. Five Stars Does it get any better?
Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris. . New Yorker staff writer A.J