Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from the New York Times

ISBN-13: 9780393337464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 206 str.

Amanda Hesser

Opis

Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn't prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, Patricia Marx, John Burnham Schwartz, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, and Heidi Julavits, among others.

O autorze

Amanda Hesser arbeitet als Food-Journalistin für die New York Times. Ihre Reportagen und Kolumnen rund ums Thema Essen und Trinken sind mittlerweile Kult. Die Autorin lebt derzeit in New York City.