A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand On Food And Life - 9780802126467

[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.ö--Jane and Michael Stern,New York Times Book Review onThe Raw and the Cooked New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this countryÆs most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetiteö (Dallas Morning News).A Really Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of HarrisonÆs death, collects many of his food pieces for the first time--and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. Jim HarrisonÆs legendary gourmandise is on full display inA Really Big Lunch. From the titularNew Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces fromBrick,Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews,A Really Big Lunch is shot through with HarrisonÆs pointed aper?us and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of HarrisonÆs life over the last three decades.A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite. "Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.ö --John Skowles,San Diego Union-Tribune onThe Raw and the Cooked

• | Author: Jim Harrison
• | Publisher: Grove Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Cooking
• | ISBN-10: 0802126464
• | ISBN-13: 9780802126467