The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XC678Z5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s life partner, who reinvented herself at seventy as a cookbook author; M.F.K. A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses—a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis—Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. In doing so, this group biography also tells the story of an era when America adored all things French. Justin Spring’s T
K. Fisher is priceless by itself. The charm of Justin Spring’s book comes from the light touch with which he brings to life the literary and political background of the postwar years in France, his impeccable knowledge of all things culinary, and his talent for ferreting out the most telling and amusing anecdotes.” Ankha Muhlstein, author of Balzac’s Omelette. F. The Gourmands’ Way is an ideal match of subject and author: Justin Spring's knowledge of gastronomic culture is exhaustive, his storytelling skills unerring, and his grasp of human essences (for better and for worse) exquisitely exact. The Gourmands’ Way delves deep into their gastronomic lives, which h
Justin Spring is a writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture, and the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade; Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art;and Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude.