The reporter's kitchen
By: Jane Kramer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781250074379
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Food writing; Food; Social aspects
Description: "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. For the first time, Jane's beloved food pieces from The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1964, are arranged in one place--a collection of definitive chef profiles, personal essays, and gastronomic history that is at once deeply personal and humane. The Reporter's Kitchen follows 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 acclaimed Danish chef Rene Redzepi, of Noma, forage for edible sea-grass. The Reporter's Kitchen is an important record of culture distilled through food around the world. It's welcoming and inevitably surprising"--
Notes: Articles first published in the New Yorker.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The reporter's kitchen; title: Profiles; title: The hungry travelers; title: Spice routes; title: The philosopher chef; title: Post-Modena; title: Books, essays, and adventures; title: The quest; title: Down under; title: The food at our feet; title: A fork of one's own; title: Good greens; title: Eat, memory; title: Celebrating; title: Pilgrim's progress; title: Rites, rituals, and celebrations.