Overview
The Table Comes First is at once a celebration of the rituals of eating - the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart, the core of our memories - and an exploration of the extraordinary transformations that our notion of what makes food 'good' has undergone. Taking the reader from the birth of the restaurant in 18th century France to the molecular Meccas of Barcelona The Table Comes First is the delightful beginning of a new conversation about the way we eat now.
Full Product Details
Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Imprint: riverrun
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 21.70cm
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9781849162876
ISBN 10: 1849162875
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 October 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
'His writing here is a high-glazed wonder' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian. 'I need to read anything that Adam Gopnik writes and these essays on food, eating and - it follows - life are a particular feast. His acuity, grace, sensitive intelligence (in short, his brilliance) are, as ever, dazzlingly displayed and yet with the lightest of touches' Nigella Lawson. 'Brilliant ... flamboyant and greedy' Independent. 'Extraordinary' GQ. 'Like the Argentinian [Lionel Messi], Gopnik is always worth watching' Telegraph. 'Gopnik, a brilliant writer on the New Yorker, makes a passionate case for the centrality of the table to our lives, and the binding force of sitting down to the 'nightly miracle' of dinner' Sunday Times.
'His writing here is a high-glazed wonder' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian. 'I need to read anything that Adam Gopnik writes and these essays on food, eating and - it follows - life are a particular feast. His acuity, grace, sensitive intelligence (in short, his brilliance) are, as ever, dazzlingly displayed and yet with the lightest of touches' Nigella Lawson. 'Brilliant ... flamboyant and greedy' Independent. 'Extraordinary' GQ.
'His writing here is a high-glazed wonder' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian. 'I need to read anything that Adam Gopnik writes and these essays on food, eating and - it follows - life are a particular feast. His acuity, grace, sensitive intelligence (in short, his brilliance) are, as ever, dazzlingly displayed and yet with the lightest of touches' Nigella Lawson. 'Brilliant ... flamboyant and greedy' Independent. 'Extraordinary' GQ. 'Like the Argentinian [Lionel Messi], Gopnik is always worth watching' Telegraph. 'Gopnik, a brilliant writer on the New Yorker, makes a passionate case for the centrality of the table to our lives, and the binding force of sitting down to the 'nightly miracle' of dinner' Sunday Times. 'He may be the best food writer there is. He's certainly the most thoughtful - the most philosophical' Evening Standard. 'Gopnik writes beautifully ... this is a lovely history of the way we think about all sorts of things' William Leith. 'These are personal essays in the fullest sense of the word, sieving the big subjects of the book's subtitle - family, France, food - through one man's well-furnished mind' Guardian.
'He may be the best food writer there is. He's certainly the most thoughtful - the most philosophical' Evening Standard. * Evening Standard * 'These are personal essays in the fullest sense of the word, sieving the big subjects of the book's subtitle - family, France, food - through one man's well-furnished mind' Guardian. * Guardian * 'His writing here is a high-glazed wonder' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian. * Guardian * 'Gopnik writes beautifully ... this is a lovely history of the way we think about all sorts of things' William Leith. * William Leith * 'Gopnik, a brilliant writer on the New Yorker, makes a passionate case for the centrality of the table to our lives, and the binding force of sitting down to the 'nightly miracle' of dinner' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times * 'Brilliant ... flamboyant and greedy' Independent. * Independent * 'Extraordinary' GQ. * GQ * 'He may be the best food writer there is. He's certainly the most thoughtful - the most philosophical' Evening Standard. * Evening Standard * 'Like the Argentinian [Lionel Messi], Gopnik is always worth watching' Telegraph. * Telegraph *
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adam-Gopnik/25314324510?sk=wall&filter=12
Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
