A really big lunch / Jim Harrison with an introduction by Mario Batali.

ISBN:

9781611856231

Title:

Author:

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, author.

Personal Author:

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, author.

Uniform Title:

Essays. Selections

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

General Note:

"The roving gourmand on food and life" - Book jacket

"The pieces collected in this volume have originally appeared in Smoke Signals, The Kermit Lynch Wine Newsletter, Brick, The New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, Playboy, Edible Baja Arizona, Big Sky Cooking by Meredith Brokaw and Ellen Wright, The Montana Writers?"

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Eat Your Heart Out (Smoke Signals, 1981) -- Food for Thought (Smoke Signals, 1982) -- The Dead Food Scrolls (Smoke Signals, 1983) -- The Vivid Diet (Unpublished, 1986) -- Father-in-Law (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 1995) -- Wine Notes (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) -- Is Winemaking an Art? (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) -- My Problems with White Wine (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) -- Eat or Die (Brick, 2003) -- Paris Rebellion (Brick, 2003) -- Odious Comparisons (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2004) -- Wine Criticism and Literary Criticism (Part II) (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2004) -- Food, Sex, and Death (Brick, 2004) -- A Really Big Lunch (New Yorker, 2004) -- Carte -- Tongue (Brick, 2004) -- Ducks (Molto Italiano, 2005) -- Wine Strategies (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2005) -- Resuming the Pleasure (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2005) -- Snake-Eating (Brick, 2005) -- Bear Posole (The Montana Writers' Cookbook, 2005) --

Contents note continued: Food, Fitness, and Death (Brick, 2005) -- The Fisherman Gourmand (Big Sky Cooking, 2006) -- Food and Mood (Brick, 2006) -- Vin Blanc (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2006) -- Eternity and Food (Brick, 2006) -- The Spirit of Wine (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2007) -- Here I Stand for a Few Minutes (Brick, 2007) -- One Good Thing Leads to Another (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2007) -- Don't Go Out Over Your Head (Brick, 2007) -- Rage and Appetite (Brick, 2008) -- Close to the Bone (Martha Stewart Living, 2008) -- Food, Finance, and Spirit (Brick, 2009) -- The Body Is a Temple (Brick, 2009) -- Food and Music (Brick, 2010) -- The Arts Versus Food and Birds (Brick, 2010) -- Wine and Poetry (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2010) -- Caregiver (Brick, 2011) -- Chef English Major (Playboy, June 2011) -- The Logic of Birds and Fishes As It Relates to Shingles (Brick, 2011) -- Pain (Brick, 2012) -- Courage and Survival (Brick, 2013) -- San Rafael (Brick, 2013) --

Contents note continued: Eat Where You Live (Edible Baja Arizona, 2014) -- Gramps le Fou (Brick, 2014) -- Truly Older (Brick, 2014) -- Real Old Food (Brick, 2015) -- Everyday Life: The Question of Zen (Brick, 2001).

Subject Term:

Cooking.

Gastronomy.

Added Author:

Batali, Mario,

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y.

Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,

[2017]

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Summary

A new collection from 'the Henry Miller of food writing' ( Wall Street Journal ) - beloved, New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison.

Author Notes

Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the New York Times -bestselling author of thirty-nine previous books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva and Returning to Earth . A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, his work was published in twenty-seven languages.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The late poet and novelist Harrison (Legends of the Fall), known for sagas of frontier existentialists, was also a devotee of fine and not-so-fine dining, and his gusto sparkles throughout this collection of magazine essays on food. Harrison writes of a vast range of meals and foodstuffs in disparate settings: fresh-caught rattlesnakes; a dinner of "artisanal salamis, lamb and duck prosciutto" flown in for a fishing trip; innumerable sojourns through France eating at bistros and ogling women; the title feast, an 11-hour, 37-course, 19-wine lunch featuring three centuries of French delicacies including poached eel with chicken wing tips and testicles in a pool of tarragon butter. Woven around the food descriptions (complete with a recipe for bear-meat cubes) are the author's rambling ruminations and poems on just about everything, including the similarities of wine criticism and literary criticism, Wall Street's odiousness, Buddhist moral lacunae, and death and dying. As his aging body succumbs to diabetes, shingles, kidney stones, and other afflictions, food becomes a last redoubt of sensual pleasure amid waning physicality. Harrison treats all these subjects with his usual earthy wit and delighted curiosity; the result is a tasty nosh for foodies with a literary bent. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Poet and novelist Harrison's food writing was previously collected in The Raw and the Cooked (2001), and most of the nearly 50 pieces gathered in this new collection, published on the one-year anniversary of the author's death, were written since then. First appearing in Brick, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and other publications, the mostly short essays share a stream-of-consciousness, unedited, uncensored approach and touch on travel, politics, literature, art, sex, writing, and the author's health nearly as much as they do food. And on all of the above, his playful quotability is boundless: tofu is a gustatory self-laceration, drinking is the writer's black lung disease, and if you shared a bottle of Cayron before the usual obnoxious meeting you wouldn't hate anyone. Battling painful illness, he writes, Of course we are loaned this life, then suddenly one day it's overdue. With an introduction from Harrison's longtime friend Mario Batali, this makes a great addition to popular food and wine collections and will be a savory treat for Harrison fans.--Bostrom, Annie Copyright 2017 Booklist