We Are What We Ate: 24 Memories of Food, a Share Our Strength Book - Softcover

Winegardner, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156006235 ISBN 13: 9780156006231

Publisher: Harvest Publications, 1998

Synopsis

This delightful collection of essays, reminiscences, and commentary takes us on a metaphorical tour of the American psyche. Food is basic not only to our survival, but also to our soul, as these recollections of eating delightfully demonstrate. Paul Auster recalls the onion tart that looked like his last meal in Provence and Lee Smith the "lady food" of her mother's bridge club, Jill McCorkle confesses to junk food addiction and Lorrie Moore to take-out Chinese on Christmas. Whether by gourmets or gourmands, a "picky eater" or a "nongourmet, " those blessed with a heritage of taste or those with a white-bread tradition, the essays of "We Are What We Ate" tell about the spiritual substance of the sustenance in our lives.

"We Are What We Ate" benefits Share Our Strength, the nation's preeminent organization fighting hunger. It will be published to coincide with SOS's annual Writers Harvest National Reading, a nationwide benefit to be held on October 29, 1998, during which over 1,000 writers read their work at bookstores and on college campuses across the country.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Winegardner is the author of the novel The Veracruz Blues and three books of nonfiction. A regular contributor to GQ, he has also published work in the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Esquire, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Doubletake, and other magazines. He is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Publications
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0156006235
• ISBN 13: 9780156006231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240