An intriguing book, The Everlasting Meal–Cooking with Economy and Grace, by Tamar Adler. She’s a Chez Panisse alum, and Alice Waters wrote the intro. As the author says at the beginning, it isn’t quite a cookbook, nor a memoir. She says she modeled it on MFK Fisher’s How To Cook A Wolf, and I can see the resemblance. Not many recipes, but lots of little suggestions and tangents.
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I just finished this collection of stories from the author of Suite Française:
I also Started a Gentleman in Moscow by Amore Towles but set it aside when my fourth book in the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child, became available:
She’s an incredible writer.
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Does it say “why” she took her own life??
I mean it sounds like life was going pretty good for her… an author, a model and an actress.
Sounds like she had a pretty tumultuous life:
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It’s strange to think these stories were written in the (I think) late 1970s/early 1980s. They have a sensibility that is suited to the current day and age.
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Just in case folks might be looking to add to their reading lists (gift link):
(And I just realized I need to contribute some of what I’ve read this year, as well. There’s lots.)
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I really enjoyed The Night Tiger a lot more than anticipated, and I found two others by the same author on Libby.
Now reading
Then
The author is the narrator, and I enjoyed her narration.
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I just finished (ebook from my library) Alton Brown’s latest: Food for Thought. Most of it bored me so I skimmed through a lot of it. There’s only one recipe: Roasting Chicken at 500°.
No thanks, I love Marcella Hazan’s Chicken with 2 lemons, breast side down first 35 minutes.
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I had to check it out twice (hard copy though th local library) because it became so WORDY! There are a few silly stories, tho.
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Also…
I’ve not tried to read two books at once, let alone non-fiction, but lots of folks are waiting on this one.
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Saw a paywalled review. Here’s an accessible collection:
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I’ve been following him on social media for awhile. Seems like a really nice guy and I’ve got the book on hold on Libby.
Just finished the Keith McNally memoir, I Regret almost Everything. Interesting read and a slice of NYC restaurant world. Also have enjoyed the Lorne Michaels bio, Graydon Carter memoir, Lets Call Her Barbie about founding of Mattel and Laurie Woolever’s Care and Feeding about being an assistant to Bourdain and Mario Batali.
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Food Person hasn’t hit the shelf here. In meantime, maybe our request for latest Carl Hiassen (Fever Beach) will come through soon.
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It was hard for me to get into at first, in part because of the narrator. Took a few false starts, but I am enjoying it now.
Written by Hilary Clinton and Louise Penny and released in 2021, detailing a terrorist attack shortly after the end of a “deranged presidents” term.
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Ebook from my library, had to wait a while:
I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally
Compelling (I have a preference for memoirs anyway) but I haven’t wanted to put it down (I must in order to recharge the I Pad!).
I do wish he’d slow down a bit, expand more on what he’s already written. He said his mother looked down on his father, divorced him at age 72, died 2 years later!
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Short, but touching. Any of you who use humor as a coping mechanism for… well, life might appreciate his thoughts. And maybe those of you who don’t might appreciate them as well.
I really enjoyed his latest comedy special where he talks about his dad’s stroke.
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I’m part way through Care and Feeding by Laurie Woolever, had to wait for the ebook from my library.
I very much dislike her and also like her at the same time. Another book I don’t want to put down.
Brutally honest about herself and others.
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