The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beards life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmets complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminates the history of American food in the twentieth century. At a time when stuffy French restaurants and soulless Continental cuisine prevailed, Beard invented something strange and new: the notion of an American cuisine.Informed by previously overlooked correspondence, years of archival research, and a close reading of everything Beard wrote, this majestic biography traces the emergence of personality in American food while reckoning with the outwardly gregarious Beards own need for love and connection, arguing that Beard turned an unapologetic pursuit of pleasure into a new model for food authors and experts.Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903, Beard would journey from the pristine Pacific Coast to New Yorks Greenwich Village by way of gay undergrounds in London and Paris of the 1920s. The failed actorturnedManhattan canapé hawkerturnedauthor and cooking teacher was the jovial bachelor uncle presiding over Americas kitchens for nearly four decades. In the 1940s he hosted one of the first television cooking shows, and by flouting the rules of publishing would end up crafting some of the most expressive cookbooks of the twentieth century, with recipes and stories that laid the groundwork for how we cook and eat today.The Man Who Ate Too Much
yazar | John Birdsall |
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Tarafından yayınlandı | 6 Ekim 2020 |
1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 3 Ocak 2017 Collectif 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm 14.81 x 0.48 x 21.01 cm 5 Ocak 2017 20,3 x 0,6 x 25,4 cm HardPress Publishing 28 Şubat 2018 17.78 x 0.61 x 25.4 cm Kolektif 4 Ocak 2017 United States Congress 6 Ekim 2020 Babadada Gmbh Icon Group International 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm 31 Ağustos 2012
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
yazar | John Birdsall |
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isbn 10 | 0393635716 |
isbn 13 | 978-0393635713 |
Yayımcı | W W NORTON & CO; Illustrated basım |
Tarafından yayınlandı The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard | 6 Ekim 2020 |
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