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Secret Ingredients (Modern Library): The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink Reviews
Secret Ingredients (Modern Library): The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink Reviews
| 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful  Seventy Years of Great Writing about Dining Out, Food, Beverages, and Dieting, By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Hardcover) In praising Secret Ingredients, I'm torn between praising the writing style or the content more highly. Both are superb.As a reading experience, you'll find your mouth watering, your mind remembering tastes and aromas you haven't experienced in years, your eyes alight with remembered scenes you've enjoyed, your mouth smiling as you enjoy great turns of phrase, and your hand writing down things from the book you want to try. At the same time, you'll be learning more about food, beverages, cooking, gathering food, catching fish, preparing food, and dining than you had ever thought you would know. I normally plow through a book like this in an evening, but I was having so much fun I stretched the pleasure out over several days. I recommend you do the same. The opening section on dining out was a revelation as I learned about huge feasts that all-male groups would eat unbelievable quantities of food in New York without benefit of tables or utensils. The... Read more 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful  Quite hard going in places., By This review is from: Secret Ingredients (Modern Library): The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Paperback) Read this with my book club and we all love food so had a great discussion from the book, but we all found some of it quite hard going. Quite a lot of the articles were slightly pretentious and quite narrow minded, but in contrast, there were some especially enjoyable interesting ones, particularly in the section called 'Fishing and Foraging'. An ok read, but very small typeface and very thin pages so took forever to read! |
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