The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand - Softcover

Harrison, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080213937X ISBN 13: 9780802139375

Publisher: Grove Press, 2002

Synopsis

Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius — one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life." From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal, and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite.

"Our 'poet laureate of appetite' [Harrison] may be, but the collected essays here reflect much more." — John Gamino, The Dallas Morning News

"[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah...." — Jane and Michael Stern, The New York Times Book Review

"Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious." — Jeffrey Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Harrison is the author of four volumes of novellas, seven novels, seven collections of poetry, and a memoir, Off to the Side. His work has been published in twenty-two languages. He lives in Montana and Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 080213937X
• ISBN 13: 9780802139375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288