Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Craving -- 1 The Fried Egg and I -- 2 A Peanut Butter Kid in a Velveeta Wasteland -- Recipe: Almost Like Mom's Macaroni and Cheese -- 3 About Sex and Me -- 4 Slow Death by Mayonnaise -- Recipe: Blueberry Pie with Orange-Nut Crust -- 5 Something Borrowed, Something Blue -- Recipe: My Ex-Sister-in-Law's Orange Pour Cake -- 6 Innocents Abroad -- Recipe: Raw Tomato Sauce for Pasta -- 7 Comfort Me with Chocolate Mousse -- 8 How I Becamw Henri Soule's Darling -- 9 When Craig Claiborne Was God and King -- 10 The Insatiable Critic -- Recipe: Plum Rum Conserve -- 11 Planting the Seeds of Sensuality -- 12 Bite: A New York Restaurant Strategy -- 13 Ma Vie Avec Le Grape Nut -- Recipe: Danish Meat Loaf -- 14 Men I Just Couldn't Resist -- Recipe: Infidelity Soup with Turkey and Winter Vegetables -- 15 The Woman Who Gave Me France on a Plate -- 16 Can This Be Love, or Is It An Intoxication Butter? -- Recipe: Chocolate Wickedness -- 17 A Gastromaniacal Interlude -- 18 Haute Afloat -- 19 Under Covers -- 20 Train Games -- Recipe: The Morning-After Orange Fruit Soup -- 21 The Scent of a Man -- 22 The Yo-Yo Unwinds -- 23 It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Kaufman -- 24 Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen -- 25 Getting To Know Craig -- Recipe: Mushroom Strudel -- 26 I Lost It at the Baths -- 27 Drowning My Sorrows in Chilled Burgundy -- 28 Of James Beard and Encounters with Goddesses -- 29 Splendor in the Foie Gras -- 30 Swimming in Bordeaux -- 31 How They Ate in Pompeii -- 32 Blue Skies and Candy, Too -- Recipe: Scallops with Salsa Cruda and Gremolata -- 33 Life Is a Cabernet -- 34 Am I Blue? -- 35 The Prince of Porn and the Junk-Food Queen -- 36 Skin Flick -- 37 What I Learned on Spring Break -- 38 A Wine Romance This Is -- Recipe: Jean Troisgros's Figs Candy Blue -- 39 It's Not Easy Being Greene.

40 Cuisines from Three Marriages -- 41 Bonfire of the Foodies -- 42 On Mountain Time -- Recipe: Juliette's Grandma's Fruit Crumble -- 43 Dining on the Lip of the Volcano -- 44 Le Cirque: Having My Cake and Eating It, Too -- 45 And to Think That I Saw It on Wooster Street -- 46 Memories of Maguy and Gilbert LeCoze -- 47 My Dinners with Andre -- 48 The Day the Music Died -- 49 Kiss Kiss Before Dinner -- 50 Eating Humble Pie -- Recipe: Corn Soup with Sauteed Scallops and Bacon -- 51 Aftermath: No Mere Truffle -- Conversion Table -- Index.