Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

New York: Random House, 2007. Stated First Edition. Octavo, 582 pp: illustrations; 25 cm Fine in neaer fine(-) to very good(++) jacket. Quarter bound in red with black boards, gilt titles to spine, very slight bump to lower spine, else corners sharp, imperceptible smudge to lower textblock, binding firm and tight; pages crisp, no markings or tears present, jacket is price clipped. Overall a perfect edition to the food lover's library! . Hardcover. ISBN: 9781400065479

All pieces in this collection were originally published by The New Yorker Magazine. Jacket illustration by Ronald Searle. 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 The New Yorker’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste. // Food, Food Literary collections, Food habits, Food habits Literary collections, Gastronomie Anthologies, Gastronomy, Gastronomy Literary collections, Habitudes alimentaires Anthologies, Literary collections, Literature, Littérature, Nonfiction, Contents:, Contents:, Dining out: All you can hold for five bucks / Joseph Mitchell, The finest butter and lots of time / Joseph Wechsberg, A good appetite / A.J. Liebling, The afterglow / A.J. Liebling, Is there a crisis in French cooking? / Adam Gopnik, Don't eat before reading this / Anthony Bourdain, A really big lunch / Jim Harrison, Eating in: The secret ingredient / M.F.K. Fisher, The trouble with tripe / M.F.K. Fisher, Nor censure nor disdain / M.F.K. Fisher, Good cooking: / Calvin Tomkins, Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane, The reporter's kitchen / Jane Kramer, Fishing and foraging: A mess of clams / Joseph Mitchell, A forager / John McPhee, The fruit detective / John Seabrook, Gone fishing / Mark Singer, On the bay / Bill Buford, Local delicacies: An attempt to compile a short history of The buffalo chicken wing / Calvin Trillin, The homesick restaurant / Susan Orlean, The magic bagel / Calvin Trillin, A rat in my soup / Peter Hessler, Raw faith / Burkhard Bilger, Night kitchens / Judith Thurman, The pour: Dry martini / Roger Angell, The red and the white / Calvin Trillin, The russian god / Victor Erofeyev, The ketchup conundrum / Malcolm Gladwell, Tastes funny: But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker, Curl up and diet / Ogden Nash, Quick, hammacher, my stomacher! / Ogden Nash, Nesselrode to jeopardy / S.J. Perelman, Eat, drink, and be merry / Peter De Vries, Notes from the overfed / Woody Allen, Two menus / Steve Martin, The zagat history of my last relationship 409(3) / Noah Baumbach, Your table is ready / John Kenney, Small plates: Bock / William Shawn, Diat / Geoffrey T. Hellman, 4 a.m. / James Stevenson, Slave / Alex Prud'Homme, Under the hood / Mark Singer, Protein source / Mark Singer, A sandwich / Nora Ephron, Sea urchin / Chang-Rae Lee, As the french do / Janet MalColm, Blocking and chowing / Ben McGrath, When edibles attack / Rebecca Mead, Killing dinner / Gabrielle Hamilton, Fiction: Taste / Roald Dahl, Two roast beefs / V.S. Pritchett, The sorrows of gin / John Cheever, The jaguar sun / Italo Calvino, There should be a name for it / Matthew Klam, Sputnik / Don DeLillo, Enough / Alice McDermott, The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich, Bark / Julian Barnes