Insatiable : Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess

by Greene, Gael

• ISBN13: 9780446576994
• ISBN10: 0446576999
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-04
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub

Summary

"I love Le Cirque, but can I be trusted?" writes Gael Greene, the revered restaurant critic for New York magazine, whose fierce wit and sensuous prose changed the way Americans think about food. Now in this audacious memoir, Greene blends love and food, haute cuisine and social history to capture an era of erotic excess and a life lived to its fullest. Detailing her trysts with Elvis Presley, Hollywood icons, and celebrity chefs, Greene takes you inside renowned restaurants such as Le Pavillon, Le Bernardin, and Lutece, while offering intimate portraits of culinary legends Andre Soltner, James Beard, and Julia Child, among others. Filled with adventure, humor, and lovingly described meals, this tale of pleasure and heartbreak will make you laugh, cry-and undeniably hungry... Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. XI
Prelude: The Craving	p. 1
The Fried Egg and I	p. 7
A Peanut Butter Kid in a Velveeta Wasteland	p. 11
Recipe: Almost Like Mom's Macaroni and Cheese	p. 19
About Sex and Me	p. 21
Slow Death by Mayonnaise	p. 25
Recipe: Blueberry Pie with Orange-Nut Crust	p. 29
Something Borrowed, Something Blue	p. 31
Recipe: My Ex-Sister-in-Law's Orange Pour Cake	p. 35
Innocents Abroad	p. 36
Recipe: Raw tomato sauce for Pasta	p. 39
Comfort Me with Chocolate Mousse	p. 40
How I Became Henri Soule's Darling	p. 44
When Craig Claiborne Was God and King	p. 47
The Insatiable Critic	p. 53
Recipe: Plum Rum Conserve	p. 55
Planting the Seeds of Sensuality	p. 56
Bite: A New York Restaurant Strategy	p. 62
Ma Vie Avec Le Grape Nut	p. 69
Recipe: Danish Meat Loaf	p. 77
Men I Just Couldn't Resist	p. 78
Recipe: Infidelity Soup with Turkey and Winter Vegetables	p. 82
The Woman Who Gave Me France on a Plate	p. 84
Can This Be Love, or Is It an Intoxication of Butter?	p. 92
Recipe: Chocolate Wickedness	p. 100
A Gastromaniacal Interlude	p. 101
Haute Afloat	p. 110
Under Covers	p. 114
Train Games	p. 121
Recipe: The Morning-After Orange Fruit Soup	p. 124
The Scent of a Man	p. 125
The Yo-yo Unwinds	p. 129
It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Kaufman	p. 132
Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen	p. 138
Getting to Know Craig	p. 146
Recipe: Mushroom Strudel	p. 157
I Lost It at the Baths	p. 159
Drowning my Sorrows in Chilled Burgundy	p. 165
Of James Beard and Encounters with Goddesses	p. 169
Splendor in the Foie Gras	p. 175
Swimming in Bordeaux	p. 179
How They Ate in Pompeii	p. 181
Blue Skies and Candy, Too	p. 193
Recipe: Scallops with Salsa Cruda and Gremolata	p. 200
Life Is a Cabernet	p. 202
Am I Blue?	p. 207
The Prince of Porn and the Junk-Food Queen	p. 213
Skin Flick	p. 221
What I Learned on Spring Break	p. 231
A Wine Romance This Is	p. 246
Recipe: Jean Troisgros's Figs Candy Blue	p. 255
It's Not Easy Being Greene	p. 256
Cuisines from Three Marriages	p. 263
Bonfire of the Foodies	p. 272
On Mountain Time	p. 282
Recipe: Juliette's Grandma's Fruit Crumble	p. 290
Dining on the Lip of the Volcano	p. 292
Le Cirque: Having My Cake and Eating it, Too	p. 299
And to Think That I Saw It on Wooster Street	p. 308
Memories of Maguy and Gilbert LeCoze	p. 314
My Dinners with Andre	p. 324
The Day the Music Died	p. 330
Kiss Kiss Before Dinner	p. 337
Eating Humble Pie	p. 341
Recipe: Corn Soup with Sauteed Scallops and Bacon	p. 348
Aftermath: No Mere Truffle	p. 350
Index	p. 359
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