Eating: A Memoir

by Jason Epstein

Book Overview

This delicious memoir celebrates a lifetime of pleasure in cooking and eating well, taking us on a culinary tour of the life of the legendary editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400042968
• ISBN13: 9781400042968
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A GREAT READ!!

So, if you are interested in EATING, and who isn't? Then get this book!!! Recipes are great and so are both the writing and stories.

Imagine--Eating and Storytelling Connected Together

I highly recommend Eating: A Memoir by Jason Epstein [ASIN:1400042968] for anyone who is interested in eating (aren't we all?) and the relationship of food, memory, and love of stories and storytelling in your life. Epstein brilliantly weaves these elements together in a memoir about his growing up, his grandmother's cooking, and becoming an editor and writer in a New York publishing house. Who knew? The author makes it clear in a lovely way that all of us are "gourmets" of memory, personal story, and enjoying the everyday food we grew up with. I want to give this book to all my friends for their birthdays (along with a memorable meal, of course). Susan

Eating

I really enjoyed this book. It's not just a cookbook but many neat short stories with recipes. If you enjoyed Julia Reed's Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns and Other Southern Specialties, you'll like this book.

Five Stars! Highly Recommended.

This wonderful book is more than a memoir. In its subtle way, it is a history of the 20th Century through the prism of American food, taking us from Epstein's grandmother's 1930's kitchen in Maine, to Howard Johnson's in the 1940's, to Locke Obers and John Duck in the 50's and 60's, Lutece in the 1980's, to Chez Pannisse and Spago and Michael Pollan today. There are wonderful anecdotes about literary and non literary types along the way, from Buster Keaton to Jackie Onassis to Roy Cohn to Norman Mailer. And the recipes are witty. A very funny and charming book.