- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
An essay collection from "the Henry Miller of food writing" and New York Times –bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked ( The Wall Street Journal ). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch "brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented by family photographs" (NPR). From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's aperçus and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last three decades. Including articles that first appeared in Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and more, as well as an introduction by Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch offers "sage and succulent essays" for the literary gourmand ( Shelf Awareness, starred review).
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Table of contents
- A REALLY BIG LUNCH
- Also by Jim Harrison
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 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
- A Really Big Lunch
- CARTE
- Tongue
- Ducks
- Wine Strategies
- Resuming the Pleasure
- Snake-Eating
- Bear Posole
- Food, Fitness, and Death
- The Fisherman Gourmand
- Food and Mood
- Vin Blanc
- Eternity and Food
- The Spirit of Wine
- Here I Stand for a Few Minutes
- One Good Thing Leads to Another
- Don't Go Out Over Your Head
- Rage and Appetite
- Close to the Bone
- Food, Finance, and Spirit
- The Body Is a Temple
- Food and Music
- The Arts Versus Food and Birds
- Wine and Poetry
- Caregiver
- Chef English Major
- The Logic of Birds and Fishes As It Relates to Shingles
- Pain
- Courage and Survival
- San Rafael
- Eat Where You Live
- Grandpa le Fou
- Truly Older
- Real Old Food
- Everday Life: The Question of Zen
- Photo Credits
- Back Cover