Eat, Memory

Publishers Information

About Eat, Memory

Publisher Web Link: http://books.wwnorton.com/

Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from the New York Times

Memorable moments with food—collected by “one of the best of the young food writers” (Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic). New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America’s leading writers—playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists—in the magazine. Eat, Memory collects the best stories and recipes to accompany them.

Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn’t prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate.

Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, Patricia Marx, John Burnham Schwartz, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, and Heidi Julavits, among others.

Author Information

About Amanda Hesser

Author Web Link: http://www.food52.com/

Amanda grew up in a family where everyone, including her father, cooked. In college, she worked at a bakery on Saturday nights and drove a truck around Boston at dawn, delivering the bread. She later worked in bakeries and restaurants in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. After writing her first book, The Cook and the Gardener, Amanda was hired by the New York Times as a food reporter.

In 11 years, she wrote more than 800 stories for the Times, published another book, Cooking for Mr. Latte, based on a column she wrote about her courtship with her husband, and was deemed the “evil foodie darklord” by Gawker (a title she humbly cherishes). Her third book, Eat, Memory, was published in 2008, and the New York Times cookbook she’s been working on for 5 years will be out in 2010. She plays herself in the much anticipated “Julie & Julia.” Amanda now lives with Mr. Latte in Brooklyn with their twin son and daughter, who by age 2 had eaten both pigeon and uni, whether they liked it or not.

A dedicated multi-tasker, Amanda cooks and eats both seasonally and locally as much as possible. She would rather eat nothing than scarf down something on the run. She loves her label-maker, Balthazar’s cinnamon bun and her double-handed kitchen mitt (a gift from Merrill!).

Amanda also enjoys risking life and limb by changing the position of her impossibly cumbersome oven rack once the oven is already hot. Among her cooking pet peeves are chopping parsley (hate! hate!), peeling tomatoes and recipes that lead to a sinkful of pots and pans. (http://www.food52.com/)

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The Cook and the Gardener

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The Essential New York Times Cookbook

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Cooking for Mr. Latte

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