A sample of the menu-- Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way- Roger Angell on the art of the martini- Don DeLillo on Jell-O- Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup- Jane Kramer on the writer's kitchen- Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin- Steve Martin on menu mores-...
The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
"To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about...
Since its earliest days, "The New Yorker "has been a tastemaker literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary...