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Restaurants & Reviewers
Table Talk
A.A. Gill
Subtitled Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter, this collection of columns from the Sunday Times and Tatler reveals the peripatetic restaurant/television critic at his rapier-witted best. Whether whale or Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Gill can mine any dish for the greater truth about a culture. Hardcover, 271 pp. $34.95.
Sotheby's Cafe Cookbook
With seasonal recipes from head chef Laura Greenfield and wine selections from wine department head, Serena Sutcliffe, this book features a double celebration: the 10th anniversary of the venerable auction house’s café, and of the intersection of food and art.
In support of the latter there are essays from such contributors as food historian, Sara Paston-Williams, artist Vik Muniz, and Mrs. Beeton’s biographer, Kathryn Hughes.The recipes themselves feature a blend of the traditional and contemporary - asparagus, smoked salmon, poached egg & maltaise sauce, Eton mess with hazelnut crunch. Colour photos of food , art and objects. Hardcover, 160 pp. $56.50.
Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket
Trevor White
Trevor White, an Irish restaurant critic, has written a funny and sometimes downright scathing memoir/expose about the grand restaurants of the world, the egomaniacs who cook at them, the thieves who run them, and the pretentious lot who feel compelled to write about them. The book includes an interview with that ultimate insider Anthony Bourdain and covers the ever-expanding rise of restaurants and food in the social consciousness. Hardcover, 228 pp. $32.99.
Everybody Eats There
William Stadiem & Mara Gibbs
What better way to spend your holidays than reading a book that mixes social history, culinary history, and gossip? The authors take the reader into and behind the scene of the places celebrities have made a home away from home places like New York’s Elaine’s and Balthazar, London’s Ivy and San Lorenzo, Hong Kong’s The China Club. When you are done reading, start dialing, there is a list of addresses and phone numbers in the back. A few black and white photos of the scene not the food. Hardcover, 369 pp, $33.95.
Alice Let's Eat
Calvin Trillin
One of the great humorists of his generation, Calvin Trillin is also one of the champion connoisseurs, particularly of Kansas City barbecue. Originally published in 1978, Alice, Let’s Eat is a side-splittingly funny account of Trillin’s cross cultural culinary adventures. More than that it is a love story, a tribute to his wife, Alice, who played the voice-of-reason George Burns part to Trillin’s madcap Gracie Allen. For anyone already familiar with the book, a re-reading is especially poignant in light of Alice’s death in 2001. Softcover, 182 pp. $16.00.
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