A Really Big Lunch.

ISBN:

9781611859447

Title:

A Really Big Lunch.

Author:

Harrison, Jim.

Personal Author:

Harrison, Jim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Contents:

Intro -- A REALLY BIG LUNCH -- Also by Jim Harrison -- Title Page -- Imprint 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 -- Gramps le Fou -- Truly Older -- Real Old Food -- Everyday Life: The Question of Zen -- Photo Credits.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Cooking.

Harrison, Jim,-1937-2016.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

London :

Atlantic Books,

2017.

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Summary

'The late Jim Harrison was one of the true greats when it came to writing about food. He combined an attention to detail with a glorious prose style and a massive appetite... A must read.' - Observer
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' ( Dallas Morning News ). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.
Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch . From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick , Playboy , the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last fifteen years. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

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