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I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't adored this book once they've read it. - Nigella Lawson

Gastronomic writing of the highest order, deserving a place alongside Elizabeth David and MFK Fisher. - Independent

Here is a great feast of a volume, a banquet of a book. It is both long and rich, full of intense flavours, new discoveries, unexpected contrasts ... Splendid. - Sunday Telegraph

Like the best modern-day food writers, Steingarten's style is a mix of wittily intellectual inquiry and glorious gluttony ... Little escapes his scrutiny, humour or delight. - The Times

Absolutely not to be missed. - Jennifer Paterson, Spectator

Jeffrey Steingarten trained to become a food writer at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Lampoon. He is the internationally feared and acclaimed food critic of American Vogue.