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The reporter's kitchen : essays / Jane Kramer.

by Kramer, Jane.

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St. Martin's Press, 2017.

International cooking -- Essays.

Women food writers -- Biography.

Women journalists -- Biography.

9781250074379 (hc.)

292 pages : 22 cm.

Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon interview with an old Berber woman toiling over goat stew, or to the great London restaurateur and author Yotam Ottolenghi's Notting Hill apartment, where they assembled a buttered phylo-and-cheese tower called a mutabbaq, Jane always returned from the field with a new recipe, and usually, a friend. Here are Jane's beloved food pieces from The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1964. A collection of definitive chef profiles, personal essays, and gastronomic history that is at once deeply personal and humane, following Jane everywhere, and throughout her career - from her summer writing retreat in Umbria, where Jane and her anthropologist husband host memorable expat Thanksgivings - in July - to the Nordic coast, where Jane and Danish chef Rene Redzepi, of Noma, forage for edible sea-grass. A record of culture distilled through food around the world.

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