The Gourmands' Way (Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy) - 9780374538019

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A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary History.

"The broad outline of Spring's thesis is so persuasive, the details so evocative (not to mention mouth watering), that anyone interested in the evolution of cooking in America will find The Gourmands' Way informative and indispensable." ā€”Wendy Smith, The Boston Globe

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France.

During the thirty-year boom in France following World War IIā€”les Trente Glorieusesā€”Paris was not only the worldā€™s most stylish tourist destination, it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius. In The Gourmandsā€™ Way, Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers having the time of their lives in the City of Light during this period and, in doing so, transforming the way Americans talk and think about foodā€”and the way they eat.

The six are A. J. Liebling, Alice B. Toklas, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Alexis Lichine, and Richard Olney. The Gourmandsā€™ Way is the first book ever to look at these unforgettable figures as a group. It is also the first to focus specifically on their Paris-based adventures. Liebling was a great war correspondent, reporter, and humorist who opens Springā€™s narrative by sweeping into Paris with the French and Allied forces in August 1944; Toklas was Gertrude Steinā€™s life partner who reinvented herself at age seventy-five as a cookbook author; Fisher was a sensualist storyteller and fabulist; Child was a cookbook author, Americaā€™s greatest television food celebrity, and the reinventor of the dinner party; Lichine was an ambitious wine merchant who, through an astounding series of risk-taking ventures, became the leading importer of French wines in America; and Olney was a reclusive but freewheeling artist who reluctantly evolved into one of the foremost American writers on French cuisine and French wine.

Justin Spring focuses on the most joyful, exciting, formative, and dramatic moments of these six lives, many of which were intimately connected to the exploration and discovery of fine French food and drinkā€”whether they experienced it at top Michelin-starred restaurants or straight from a hot plate in an artistā€™s garret. The Gourmandsā€™ Way leads us through both the fabled world of haute cuisine and the vibrant bohemian and artistic haunts of the Left Bank during the 1950s. Intimate, anecdotal, and beautifully researched, The Gourmandsā€™ Way is an eye-opening exploration of the rich, storied annals of mid-twentieth-century Franco-American culinary history.

This book title, The Gourmands' Way (Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy) - 9780374538019, ISBN: 9780374538019, by Justin Spring, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 16, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Justin Spring
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448
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 16, 2018)
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English
ISBN-13:
9780374538019
ISBN-10:
0374538018
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16
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