Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425278352 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"good read -- a few caveats" according to aina-haina. I do not follow Elissa Altman's blog, and I do not follow what's happening in the world of food. I'm not a foodie. I just happened to read an editorial review of this book a few days before its publication and I liked what I read, so I purchased it. I mostly read non-fiction only, and memoirs are a favorite genre.Since this book centeres around food, I'll use a foo. In a league with MFK Fisher W.H. Auden once said of legendary food writer MFK Fisher "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."This is how I feel about Elissa Altman.I am far from the first to say so. Altman was once described as "The illegitimate love child of David Sedaris and MFK Fisher," which is also quite fitting, since she approaches her craft the way she d. A story of love and food, what more could you want? opelscott Poor Man's Feast arrived in the mail just a few days ago as soon as I opened my copy and started reading Elissa's deliciously funny writing, I couldn't put the book down!As someone who lived in NYC during the late 80s and early 90s I particularly loved how Elissa so perfectly transported us to that time of Dean and Deluca decadence. Following her culinary adventure
After a childhood spent dining at fine establishments, from Le Pavillon to La Grenouille, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical. She served rare game birds at elaborate dinner parties in an apartment so tiny that the guests couldn’t turn around and bought eight timbale molds while working at Dean & DeLuca, just to make her food tall.Then, Elissa met and fell in love with Susan—a frugal, small-town Connecticut Yankee with a devotion to simple living—and it changed her relationship with food, and the people who taught her about it, forever.Told with tender and often hilarious honesty, and filled with twenty-six delicious recipes, Poor Man’s Feast is a tale of finding su
I wanted to talk about simple food as the thing that brings us together as people, rather than divides us.Q. But I find myself coming back over and over again to Sarah Searle (Yellow House) and Molly Wizenberg (Orangette) because I love longer-form narrative; they may be food writers, but they're also just really wonderful writers in the broader sense.Q. Read. Who are some of your favorite food writers? Favorite food blogs?A. Because my blog is narratively driven, when I sit down to write it I often don't know where I'm going to wind up (and consequently, I have a lot of bits and pieces of things in my drafts folder that have never come to fruition). When I started writing the blog, it tended to be very sly and sometimes even a bit attitudinal, and back then, that was okay. But