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A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Mario Batali.

A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introductio...

A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Mario Batali.

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A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Mario Batali.

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Full title

A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Mario Batali.

Publisher

New York : Grove Press, 2017.

Uniform title

Essays. Selections

Call Numbers

G 2018/4964

Record Identifier

74VKV82A0X3l

MMS ID

991024186013302626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xii, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Eat your heart out -- Food for thought -- The dead food scrolls -- The vivid diet -- Father-in-law -- Wine notes -- Is winemaking an art? -- My problems with white wine -- Eat or die -- Paris rebellion -- Odious comparisons -- Wine criticism and literary criticism (part II) -- Food, sex, and death -...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Grove Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2017.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Best-selling author Jim Harrison also wrote essays on food, earning praise as "the American Rabelais" and "the poet laureate of appetite." This book is a collection of many of his essays on food, where he muses on the relationship between hunter and prey, interrogates the obscure language of wine reviews, and delivers a menifesto against the bland,...

Alternative Titles

Full title

A really big lunch / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Mario Batali.

Cover title

Really big lunch : the roving gourmand on food and life

Roving gourmand of food and life.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

"The pieces collected in this volume have originally appeared in Smoke Signals, The Kermit Lynch Wine Newsletter, Brick, The New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, Playboy, Edible Baja Arizona, Big Sky Cooking by Meredith Brokaw and Ellen Wright, The Montana Writers?"

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2017

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2018/4964

Record Identifier

74VKV82A0X3l

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV82A0X3l

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9780802126467 (hardcover)

0802126464 (hardcover)

DDC

641.013

MMS ID

991024186013302626

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