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The gourmands' way : six Americans in Paris and the birth of a new gastronomy / Justin Spring.

by Spring, Justin, 1962-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Food writers -- United States -- Biography.

Cooks -- United States -- Biography.

Food writing -- France -- Paris.

Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.

Paris (France) -- Biography

9780374103156 (hc.)

433 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liebling and the Lion of Belfort -- The Franco-American (kitchen) alliance -- Alice Toklas starts over -- Gourmet, Brillat-Savarin and Paris cuisine -- Out on the town with Paul and Julia -- Richard Olney starts out -- Becoming Julia Child -- "As if a cook book had anything to do with writing" -- "I am a merchant of pleasure" -- Aromas and flavors of past and present -- "A dreamer of wine" -- A changing of the guard -- Olney stays on -- M. F. K. Fisher and the cooking of Provincial France -- Olney in the Var -- The end of the affair.

"A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France. During the thirty-year boom in France following World War II, Paris was not only the world's most stylish tourist destination, it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius. Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers having the time of their lives in the City of Light during this period and, in doing so, transforming the way Americans talk and think about food. The six are A. J. Liebling, Alice B. Toklas, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Alexis Lichine, and Richard Olney. Liebling was a great war correspondent, reporter, and humorist who opens Spring's narrative by sweeping into Paris with the French and Allied forces in August 1944; Toklas was Gertrude Stein's life partner who reinvented herself at age seventy-five as a cookbook author; Fisher was a sensualist storyteller and fabulist; Child was a cookbook author, America's greatest television food celebrity, and the reinventor of the dinner party; Lichine was an ambitious wine merchant who, through an astounding series of risk-taking ventures, became the leading importer of French wines in America; and Olney was a reclusive but freewheeling artist who reluctantly evolved into one of the foremost American writers on French cuisine and French wine"--Provided by publisher.

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