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Secret ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Secret ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
$75.00
by Remnick, David, ed.
Published in 2007 by Random House, New York
ISBN: 009781400000000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: As New
Comments: This is the kind of book that sums up what makes the New Yorker magazine the icon that it is. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink is made up of 58 pieces, plus an introduction by editor David Remnick. They cover every aspect of food and drink you can imagine, from a comic piece about the stress of being a good guest at dinner parties to a long excursion on foraging wild foods in the woods and fields. The pieces are mostly prose, but there are a few poems. Of the prose, most would be called essays (for lack of a better term), but there is a good shaking of fiction, too. They were originally published through the whole history of the magazine, from its start in the 1920s up to shortly before the book was compiled and published in 2008. Authors include some of the biggest names in not only the history of the New Yorker but in the history of 20th-century American literature, like Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, and Louise Erdrich, as well as the less iconic. Not only that, but this book, in a way, documents the evolution of food writing as a respectable field unto itself, with essays by M.F.K. Fisher, Anthony Bourdain, and Calvin Trillen. What makes it sparkle most, though, is that it is amply illustrated with the famed New Yorker cartoons. There is not much to say about the condition of this book, as we are listing it As New. Everything about it is tight and clean. It is a first edition, first printing, with an intact number line. Photos forthcoming, or on request in the interim.
Seller Inventory #: 0000547
Published in 2007 by Random House, New York
ISBN: 009781400000000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: As New
Comments: This is the kind of book that sums up what makes the New Yorker magazine the icon that it is. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink is made up of 58 pieces, plus an introduction by editor David Remnick. They cover every aspect of food and drink you can imagine, from a comic piece about the stress of being a good guest at dinner parties to a long excursion on foraging wild foods in the woods and fields. The pieces are mostly prose, but there are a few poems. Of the prose, most would be called essays (for lack of a better term), but there is a good shaking of fiction, too. They were originally published through the whole history of the magazine, from its start in the 1920s up to shortly before the book was compiled and published in 2008. Authors include some of the biggest names in not only the history of the New Yorker but in the history of 20th-century American literature, like Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, and Louise Erdrich, as well as the less iconic. Not only that, but this book, in a way, documents the evolution of food writing as a respectable field unto itself, with essays by M.F.K. Fisher, Anthony Bourdain, and Calvin Trillen. What makes it sparkle most, though, is that it is amply illustrated with the famed New Yorker cartoons. There is not much to say about the condition of this book, as we are listing it As New. Everything about it is tight and clean. It is a first edition, first printing, with an intact number line. Photos forthcoming, or on request in the interim.
Seller Inventory #: 0000547