Secret Ingredients
Subtitle: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Edition: Modern Library paperback edition (2)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9780812976410
Copyright date: 2007
Description: A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel

In this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker’s fabled eighty-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: DAVID REMNICK; title: ix; title: DINING OUT; title: All You Can Hold for Five Bucks; title: JOSEPH MITCHELL; title: 3; title: The Finest Butter and Lots of Time; title: JOSEPH WECHSBERG; title: 14; title: A Good Appetite; title: A.J. LIEBLING; title: 30; title: The Afterglow; title: A.J. LIEBLING; title: 46; title: Is There a Crisis in French Cooking?; title: ADAM GOPNIK; title: 65; title: Don't Eat Before Reading This; title: ANTHONY BOURDAIN; title: 83; title: A Really Big Lunch; title: JIM HARRISON; title: 90; title: EATING IN; title: The Secret ingredient; title: M.F.K. FISHER; title: 103; title: The Trouble with Tripe; title: M.E.K. FISHER; title: 109; title: Nor Censure Nor Disdain; title: M.F.K. FISHER; title: 115; title: Good Cooking; title: CALVIN TOMKINS; title: 121; title: Look Back in Hunger; title: ANTHONY LANE; title: 148; title: The Reporters Kitchen; title: JANE KRAMER; title: 159; title: FISHING AND FORAGING; title: A Mess of Clams; title: JOSEPH MITCHELL; title: 177; title: A Forager; title: JOHN McPHEE; title: 188; title: The Fruit Detective; title: JOHN SEABROOK; title: 229; title: Gone Fishing; title: MARK SINGER; title: 241; title: On the Bay; title: BILL BUFORD; title: 259; title: LOCAL DELICACIES; title: An Attempt to Compile a Short History of the Buffalo Chicken Wing; title: CALVIN TRILLIN; title: 277; title: The Homesick Restaurant; title: SUSAN ORLEAN; title: 285; title: The Magic Bagel; title: CALVIN TRILLIN; title: 297; title: A Rat in My Soup; title: PETER HESSLER; title: 303; title: Raw Faith; title: BURKHARD BILGER; title: 309; title: Night Kitchens; title: JUDITH THURMAN; title: 323; title: THE POUR; title: Dry Martini; title: ROGER ANGELL; title: 339; title: The Red and the White; title: CALVIN TRILLIN; title: 345; title: The Russian God; title: VICTOR EROFEYEV; title: 353; title: The Ketchup Conundrum; title: MALCOLM GLADWELL; title: 365; title: TASTES FUNNY; title: But the One on the Right; title: DOROTHY PARKER; title: 381; title: Curl Up and Diet; title: OGDEN NASH; title: 386; title: Quick, Hammacher, My Stomacher!; title: OGDEN NASH; title: 387; title: Nesselrode to Jeopardy; title: S.J. PERELMAN; title: 389; title: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry; title: PETER DE VRIES; title: 398; title: Notesfrom the Overfed; title: WOODY ALLEN; title: 402; title: Two Menus; title: STEVE MARTIN; title: 406; title: The Zagat History of My Last Relationship; title: NOAH BAUMBACH; title: 409; title: Your Table Is Ready; title: JOHN KENNEY; title: 412; title: SMALL PLATES; title: Bock; title: WILLIAM SHAWN; title: 419; title: Diat; title: GEOFFREY T. HELLMAN; title: 421; title: 4 A.M.; title: JAMES STEVENSON; title: 425; title: Slave; title: ALEX PRUD'HOMME; title: 428; title: Under the Hood; title: MARK SINGER; title: 431; title: Protein Source; title: MARK SINGER; title: 434; title: A Sandwich; title: NORA EPHRON; title: 437; title: Sea Urchin; title: CHANG-RAE LEE; title: 440; title: As the French Do; title: JANET MALCOLM; title: 443; title: Blocking and Chowing; title: BEN McGRATH; title: 447; title: When Edibles Attack; title: REBECCA MEAD; title: 450; title: Killing Dinner; title: GABRIELLE HAMILTON; title: 453; title: FICTION; title: Taste; title: ROALD DAHL; title: 459; title: Two Roast Beefs; title: V.S. PRITCHETT; title: 474; title: The Sorrows of Gin; title: JOHN CHEEVER; title: 491; title: The jaguar Sun; title: ITALO CALVINO; title: 506; title: There Should Be a Name for It; title: MATTHEW KLAM; title: 523; title: Sputnik; title: DON DeLILLO; title: 537; title: Enough; title: ALICE McDERMOTT; title: 545; title: The Butcher's Wife; title: LOUISE ERDRICH; title: 552; title: Bark; title: JULIAN BARNES; title: 572