Last Chance to Eat by Octavio Paz

Last Chance to Eat by Octavio Paz

Food has never been more exalted as part of a lifestyle, yet fewer and fewer people really know what good food is. Drawing on enough culinary experiences to fill several lifetimes, Gina Mallet's irreverent memoir combines recollections of meals and their milieus with recipes and tasting tips. In loving detail, Last Chance to Eat muses on the fates of foods that were once the stuff of feasts: light, fluffy eggs; rich cheeses; fresh meat; garden vegetables; and fish just hauled ashore. Mallet's gastronomic adventures appeal to any palate: from finding the perfect grilled cheese ("as delicate tasting as any Escoffier recipe") to combing the bustling food department at postwar Harrod's for the makings of "an Elizabeth David meal." The search for taste often takes her far from the beaten path—to an underground "chevaline" restaurant serving horsemeat steaks and to purveyors of contraband Epoisses, for instance—but the journey is always a delight.

Gina Mallet, a writer living in Toronto, was a theater critic for the Toronto Star and now writes about food for the National Post.

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ISBN 13	9780393058413
ISBN 10	0393058417
Titel	Last Chance to Eat
Autor	Octavio Paz
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-09-27
Seitenanzahl	384
Preise	Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Writing on Food) 2005
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.