The subtitle is wonderful: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies. More delectable still are novels in which food plays a significant role: Laura Esquival’s Like Water for Chocolate is a good example. Fisher: a one-volume anthology of her works, The Art of Eating. The Jeffrey Deaver mystery you’ve brought to the table will season your filet mignon with more subtlety than steak sauce.Īnd then there are books about food, such as those my wife Terry collects-Ruth Reichl’s memoir with recipes, Tender at the Bone, or Nigel Slater’s Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, in which the author describes his years growing up in England in terms of the foods he craves or novelist Jim Harrison’s The Raw and The Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand -who quotes John Wayne on male dieting: “It pushes a man to the wall if he stands there in the buff and looks straight down and can’t even see his own weenie” (21) and, of course, books by the queen of food writers, M.F.K. A romantic soiree might embolden the ’09 Cab you’re about to sip.
A vivid description of the New England coast will enhance the flavor of the lobster bisque you just spooned into your mouth.
This is a good thing, for you will likely eat more slowly and discover delightful interplays of sensory stimuli. And it works both ways dining also enhances the reading experience. Decades after his departure from the world he sought to understand, Eiseley is lauded for beautifully joining the worlds of science and literature.Reading a good book has a way (at least for me) of triggering the senses associated with eating, as the clichés suggest: a feast of a novel, a story smorgasbord, a delicious read, brain candy. Throughout this volume, Eiseley is praised as a brilliant thinker, accomplished writer, and esteemed man of science who drew inspiration from his midwestern upbringing and worked to bring science into the mainstream at a time when its understanding was restricted largely to those working directly in the field. Loren Eiseley collects essays and remembrances of his work by friends and academics. Much of his work covered anthropology, ecology, and human evolution, topics in which Eiseley himself was extensively educated.
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