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Synopsis
The author pays homage to "Cookery witches," those mysterious cooks who possess "an uncanny power over food," while John McPhee valiantly trails an inveterate forager and is rewarded with stewed permissions, etc.
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About the Author
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998. A staff writer for the magazine from 1992 to 1998, he was previously The Washington Post's correspondent in the Soviet Union. The author of several books, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his 1994 book Lenin's Tomb. He lives in New York with his wife and children.
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This production of THE NEW YORKER's finest food writing is not as tasty as it might have been. The major glitch is the lack of an index, which means that, while readers can dip into the collection at will, audiobook listeners must hear it with no knowledge of what's coming. The content's unusual order--Anthony Bourdain's kitchen shock jock beside MFK Fisher's paean to "cookery witches"--makes the lack of indexing particularly frustrating. Eight different actors read the essays, articles, and poems. It's an interesting approach, which unfortunately doesn't work. The actors' widely varying voices and skills increase the production's uneven quality. Edible? Yes. Satisfying? No. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherBooks On Tape
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1415942811
- ISBN 13 9781415942819
- BindingAudio CD
- LanguageEnglish
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book Of Food and Drink [Audiobook][Compact Discs][Unabridged]
Seller: The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
No Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). A Good, former library copy of an audiobook collection which "Selected from the magazine's plentiful larder, "Secret Ingredients" celebrates all forms of gustatory delight." All 20 compact discs are housed in a plastic clamshell box. Wear to plastic insert holder on box. Library label and scratches to plastic insert holder. Paper insert has been cut along the top to fit into holder. Library spine label and small library label remain on paper insert. Staining and sticky residue to paper insert. Inside box is advertising for an electronic media provider. Smudging to first compact disc sleeve. Compact Discs have slight scratching from use but play well. From front of paper insert:"Read by John Lee, Mark Bramhall, Don Leslie, Susan Denaker, Kimberly Farr, Mark Deakins, Stephen Hoye, and Arthur Morey""Contents: Dining out: All you can hold for five bucks / Joseph Mitchell; The finest butter and lots of time / Joseph Wechsberg; A good appetite ; The afterglow / A .J. Liebling; Is there a crisis in French cooking? / Adam Gopnik; Don't eat before reading this / Anthony Bourdain; A really big lunch / Jim Harrison; Eating in: The secret ingredient ; The trouble with tripe ; Nor censure nor disdain / M. F. K. Fisher; Good cooking / Calvin Tomkins; Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane; The reporter's kitchen / Jane Kramer; Fishing and foraging: A mess of clams / Joseph Mitchell; A forager / John McPhee; The fruit detective / John Seabrook; Gone fishing / Mark Singer; On the bay / Bill Buford; Local delicacies: An attempt to compile a short history of the Buffalo chicken wing / Calvin Trillin; The homesick restaurant / Susan Orlean; The magic bagel / Calvin Trillin; A rat in my soup / Peter Hessler; Raw faith / Burkhard Bilger; Night kitchens / Judith Thurman; The pour: Dry martini / Roger Angell; The red and the white / Calvin Trillin; The Russian god / Victor Erofeyev; The ketchup conundrum / Malcolm Gladwell; Tastes funny: But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker; Curl up and diet ; Quick, Hammacher, my stomacher! / Ogden Nash; Nesselrode to jeopardy / S. J. Perelman; Eat, drink, and be merry / Peter De Vries; Notes from the overfed / Woody Allen; Two menus / Steve Martin; The Zagat history of my last relationship / Noah Baumbach; Your table is ready / John Kenney; Small plates: Bock / William Shawn; Diat / Geoffrey T. Hellman; 4 a.m. / James Stevenson; Slave / Alex Prud'Homme; Under the hood / Mark Singer; Protein source / Mark Singer; A sandwich / Nora Ephron; Sea urchin / Chang-Rae Lee; As the French do / Janet Malcolm; Blocking and chowing / Ben McGrath; When edibles attack / Rebecca Mead; Killing dinner / Gabrielle Hamilton; Fiction: Taste / Roald Dahl; Two roast beefs / V. S. Pritchett; The sorrows of gin / John Cheever; The jaguar sun / Italo Calvino; There should be a name for it / Matthew Klam; Sputnik / Don DeLillo; Enough / Alice McDermott; The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich; Bark / Julian Barnes""Description: 20 audio discs (approximately 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in."From paper insert:"Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink, from every age of its fabled eighty-year history. There are memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems--ranging in tone from sweet to sour and in subject from soup to nuts.". Seller Inventory # 001968
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