My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat-from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli-and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews. For reviewer, writer, and editor Colman Andrews, restaurants have been his playground, his theater, his university, his church, his refuge. The establishments he has loved have not only influenced culinary trends at home and abroad, but represent the ...
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My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat-from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli-and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews. For reviewer, writer, and editor Colman Andrews, restaurants have been his playground, his theater, his university, his church, his refuge. The establishments he has loved have not only influenced culinary trends at home and abroad, but represent the changing history and culture of food in America and Western Europe. From his usual table, he has watched the growth of Nouvelle Cuisine and fusion cuisine; the organic and locavore movements; nose-to-tail eating; and so-called "molecular gastronomy." In My Usual Table, Andrews interweaves his own story-from growing up in the sunset years of Hollywood's golden age to traveling the world in pursuit of great food-with tales of the restaurants, chefs, and restaurateurs who are emblematic of the revolutions great and small that have forever changed the way we eat, cook, and think about food.
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Very Good in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with Dust Jacket As New. 16 page section of photos on coated paper. Page 93/94 in wrinkled in the uipper corner, else Fine. Pristine ivory linen over spine with girl title panel outlined with gilt titles within with pristine ivory paper-wrappered boards. Internals also as new. In 16 chapters, each anchored by the story of his love affair with a cherished restaurant, Andrews evokes the unforgettable meals he has eaten over a lifetime, and the people with whom he has shared them, tracing the evolution not just of our restaurants but our whole food culture--beginning with a postwar childhood spent n the baguettes of Chasen's the glamorous Old Hollywood hangout where studio heads and celebrities rubbed shoulders. 322 pages, indexed. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2014, Ecco/HarperCollins, New York.