num_pages: 368
description: With her passion for fine food and, above all, her appetite for love and life, Gael Greene traces her rise from a Velveeta cocoon in the Midwest to powerful critic of New York magazine. Love and food, foreplay and fork play, haute cuisine and social history--all become inextricably linked as the author lifts the lid on her most provocative subject yet--herself. Along the way there are tales of her saucy erotic adventures and intimate portraits of the culinary icons of our time--Julia Child, André Soltner, James Beard, among others--and revealing dissections of New York's legendary "in" spots, including Elaine's, Le Bernardin, Le Cirque, Odeon, and Balthazar.
language: English
title: Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
titlecomplete: Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
genres: Cooking, Foodie, Food, Food and Wine, Biography Memoir, Food Writing, Biography, Audiobook, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 613
publisher: Grand Central Publishing