Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375508082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those dishes are on his Register of Frustration and Deprivation. In New York, we follow Trillin as he roams Queens with the sort of people who argue about where to find the finest Albanian burek and as he tries to use a glorious local specialty, the New York bagel, to lure his daughters back from California (“I understand that in some places out there if you buy a dozen wheat-germ bagels you get your choice of a bee-pollen bagel or a ginseng bagel free”).Feeding a Yen is a delightful reminder of why NewYork magazine called Calvin Trillin “our funniest food writer.”. Sometimes he returns with yet another listing for his Register—as when he travels to Ecuador for ceviche, only to encounter fanesca, a soup so difficult to make that it “should appear on an absolutely accurate menu as Potage Labor Intensive.”We join the hunt for the authentic fish taco. And he will go anywhere to find one.As it happens, some of Trillin’s favorite dishes—pimientos de Padrón in northern Spain, for instance, or pan bagnat in Nice or posole in New Mexico—can’t be found anywhere but in their place of origin. Trillin shares charming and funny tales of managing to have another go at, say, fried marlin in Barbados or the barbecue of his boyhood in Kansas City. We tag along on the “boudin blitzkrieg&rd
About these products, he crafts writing that meanders but always finds its center. For those better acquainted with Trillin's droll humor than his culinary predilections, it should be noted that Trillin is no snooty foodie. From Publishers Weekly These 14 essays-which first appeared in the New Yorker and other magazines but have been reworked to form a cohesive whole-nearly all grow out of Trillin's concept of a "register of frustration and deprivation." Recorded are the delicacies that have not taken root in his otherwise fertile home turf of Greenwich Village. The deadpan wit, deprecating himself as much as others, remains at a slow simmer throughout. F
"fabulous stories with great food" according to Aileen Chen. I love this book. If your favorite types of food reviews are lengthy personal ones, then this book is for you. Calvin reviews the food from his heart, rather than with his brain, and I can't get enough of his stuff. :) It really makes me want to go hunt out the things he's had.. A Delicious Book About Simple and Honest Food The United States is a nation covering more than 3.5 million square miles, measuring nearly 2,800 miles from Battery Park in Manhattan to the Santa Monica Pier just west of Los Angeles. According to current Census Bureau figures, more than 290 million people live in the U.S., most of whom don't have to trace their roots back too far to find relatives who arriv. Larry Mark MyJewishBooksDotCom said better than XO Sauce. I read this book on a recent trip to Los Angeles, where I regrettably realized that Nate and Al's in Beverly Hills had better whitefish salad than Murray's in NYC. When Calvin Trillin would visit his daughters in California, he used to take a dozen or two bagels with him from NYC, to tempt them back to the capital of authentic bialys and appetizing stores from