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A really big lunch : the roving gourmand on food and life / Jim Harrison with an introduction by Mario Batali.

by Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016-

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Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2017.

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016-

Gastronomy -- Essays.

Cooking -- Essays.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

9780802126467 (hc.)

xii, 275 pages : ill.; 24 cm.

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"The pieces collected in this volume have originally appeared in Smoke Signals, The Kermit Lynch Wine Newsletter, Brick, The New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, Playboy, Edible Baja Arizona, Big Sky Cooking by Meredith Brokaw and Ellen Wright, and The Montana Writers Cookbook"--Title page verso.

Eat your heart out -- Food for thought -- The dead food scrolls -- The vivid diet -- Father-in-law -- Wine notes -- Is winemaking an art? -- My problems with white wine -- Eat or die -- Paris rebellion -- Odious comparisons -- Wine criticism and literary criticism (part II) -- Food, sex, and death -- A really big lunch -- Carte -- Tongue -- Ducks -- Wine strategies -- Resuming the pleasure -- Snake-eating -- Bear posole -- Food, fitness, and death -- The fisherman gourmand -- Food and mood -- Vin blanc -- Eternity and food -- The spirit of wine -- Here I stand for a few minutes -- One good thing leads to another -- Don't go out over your head -- Rage and appetite -- Close to the bone -- Food, finance, and spirit -- The body is a temple -- Food and music -- The arts versus food and birds -- Wine and poetry -- Caregiver -- Chef English major -- The logic of birds and fishes as it relates to shingles -- Pain -- Courage and survival -- San Rafael -- Eat where you live -- Gramps le Fou -- Truly older -- Real old food -- Everyday life: the question of zen.

Author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was one of our most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as "the poet laureate of appetite" (Dallas Morning News). Published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison's death, here are many of his food pieces, tapping into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, this is shot through with Harrison's keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last three decades. A literary delight that will satisfy every appetite. Author Jim Harrison is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. His other works include The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990), Julip (1994), The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000), The Summer He Didn't Die (2005), The Farmer's Daughter (2009), The River Swimmer (2013), and The Ancient Minstrel (2016).

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