The First Chapbook for Foodies : Recipes & Repast, Literature and Lore

by Silverman, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780942627671
• ISBN10: 0942627679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Woodford Publishing

Summary

This the second of Woodford's books renewing the great literary tradition of "chapbooks", a series with each book dedicated to one popular subject. A chapbook traditionally is a compendium of fact, lore, wit, opinion and advice. Call it educational entertainment. In the chapbook tradition, The First Chapbook for Foodies is aimed at the minds and stomachs of food lovers everywhere. Its recipe mixes the classic with the nouvelle, combining timeless writing about food with the practicalities you need to navigate confidently through today's restaurants and kitchens. Select from a menu that includes literary entrees by Calvin Trillin, M.F.K. Fisher, Isak Dinesen, James Beard, Laurie Colwin, John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Brillat-Savarin, Homer, and the Bible. Sample the fare from famed restaurants -- old and new -- like The Coyote Cafe and The Striped Bass. Get useful advice from chefs like Julia Child, Wolfgang Puck, Susan Spicer, and Georges Perrier. For dessert, attend a cooking school, go to work in a restaurant kitchen, savor the sweetness of chocolate, and d

Table of Contents

Elizabethan Grace	1	(3)
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine
(Food is Love)
Food for Thought: The Meaning of Eating	4	(6)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Feeding of the Shrew	10	(5)
William Shakespeare
Breakfast with Bloom	15	(3)
James Joyce
Christmas in Paris	18	(3)
Ernest Hemingway
``Cat'' Food	21	(5)
...And Thou
(Food is Lust)
On Chocolate, Love and War	26	(6)
Jeff Silverman
The Fall: ``Fair to the Eye, Inviting to the Taste''	32	(3)
John Milton
The Woman Who Loved to Cook	35	(3)
Erica Jong
Tom Jones: The Eating Scene	38	(4)
John Osborne
The Groaning Board
(Feasts for Heroes and Gluttons)
A Meal Fit for a King	42	(4)
The Lotus-Eaters	46	(2)
Homer
The Emblem of Peace	48	(5)
Alexis Soyer
An Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake	53	(9)
Raymond Sokolov
Any Part of Piggy	62	(4)
Noel Coward
The Way they Ate
(Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Eating)
A Dinner in Mecca	66	(3)
Richard Burton
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig	69	(4)
Charles Lamb
``American Primitive''	73	(4)
Frances Trollope
When Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone	77	(2)
Thomas Jefferson
The Canterbury Tales	79	(3)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The August Caesar Salad	82	(6)
Debby Morse
Food for Thought and Body
(Mental and Physical Sustenance)
Quantities and Qualities	88	(2)
Michel de Montaigne
Recipe for Morality	90	(1)
Joseph Conrad
Of Ill Winds and Other Matters	91	(4)
Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes a Thirst Is Just a Thirst	95	(3)
Sigmund Freud
The Chef's Challenge	98	(1)
Antonin Careme
Minding Dr. Johnson's Belly	99	(2)
James Boswell
All Souped Up	101	(5)
Jeffrey Bernard
Fast, Faster!
(Dietary Laws)
``No Sauce to Their Stews''	106	(2)
Lord Byron
It's All in the Timing	108	(1)
Babette's Feast	109	(6)
Isak Dinesen
``Thou Shalt Not Eat...'' --- Deuteronomy 14: 3-21	115	(5)
Food, Inglorious Food
(On Revulsion)
The Dirty Work of Eating Meat	120	(2)
Percy Byssbe Shelley
A Gargantuan Salad	122	(2)
Francois Rabelais
Murder in the Kitchen	124	(7)
Alice B. Toklas
Rice Pudding	131	(5)
A. A. Milne
I'd Love to have you for Dinner
(Enteratining with Meals)
Supper With Mr. Mole	136	(2)
Kenneth Grahame
Recipe Roulette	138	(4)
Kit Snedaker
Inviting a Friend to Supper	142	(3)
Ben Jonson
The Aphorisms	145	(5)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Lips that Touch Cheese Puffs
(On Food Snobbery)
Gourmet With Garnish	150	(6)
Colman Andrews
Perfect Food	156	(6)
John Thorne
Beef Spoots and Chicken Dingles	162	(3)
Debby Morse
Where Do You Want to Eat?	165	(3)
Fare Thee Well
(How to Eat)
Of Time and the Table	168	(2)
Launcelot Sturgeon
Simpler Pleasures	170	(4)
Thomas Walker
How I Learned to Taste: An Economic Theory of Appetite	174	(6)
A. J. Liebling
Pity the Blind in Palate	180	(5)
M. F. K. Fisher
The Art of Restaurant Dining --- ``Diner Out''	185	(3)
A Strand of Spaghetti	188	(4)
Behold the Bivalve
(What You Might Consider the Oyster)
Oysters in Baltimore	192	(2)
H. L. Mencken
Oysters Before Dinner	194	(2)
Jonathan Swift
The Magic of Oysters	196	(6)
Charles Dickens
Done to a Turn
(How to Cook)
Good Cooksmanship, or How to Talk a Good Fight	202	(6)
Peg Bracken
Facing the Fire	208	(8)
Jeff Silverman
A Barbecue Bill of Rights	216	(3)
Bobby Seale
Kitchen Maxims	219	(3)
Isabella Beeton
Witty and Terse, a Recipe in Verse	222	(4)
Sydney Smith
Humble Pie
(Simply Simple Food)
Oui, Oui, Nenette	226	(5)
Elizabeth David
Chasen's Chili	231	(5)
Betty Goodwin
How Cary Grant Solved the Muffin Mystery	236	(3)
Cary Grant
The Different Mind of Sicilian Cooking	239	(8)
Maureen Sajbel
Whatever Happened to Breakfast?	247
James Beard