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Judith Moore dishes up more than just her life story in Never Eat Your Heart Out, a mélange of unforgettable meals and bittersweet memories. In each of the 25 chapters, food and life experiences are inextricably linked. In "Pie" a meditation on the pleasure of making mud pies conjures up a particular afternoon in the author's childhood when thunder, chicken pie, and a dead baby bird converged to form a memory that is still sharp. In "Eating Peter Rabbit" the author changes gears, embarking on a thorough discussion of the differences between rabbits and hares, the reason why the majority of Americans won't eat either ("We gag on cute."), and the history of rabbits and the culinary arts from ancient times to the present. Another chapter, "Adultery," describes Moore's extramarital affair in terms of the meals she cooked while it occurred. In Never Eat Your Heart Out, Judith Moore follows in the grand tradition of M.F.K. Fisher, one of the first to understand that writing about food is really writing about life. Like Fisher before her, Moore creates a feast with her evocative prose; mouthwatering meals; and profound conclusions about life, love, and cooking. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Recollections of food?good and bad, ranging from breakfasts and picnics to watermelon and cranberries?trigger memories that shape this untidy grab bag of autobiographical sketches. Moore's first three and a half years were full of happy times with Daddy; then comes her parents' divorce, and she's shipped off to a farm to be raised by an evil grandmother right out of the Brothers Grimm. We're not told where, except that it's in Snow Country. Adolescence is next, and an early marriage to a dreary, small-town boy only remembered for his shoe size and the daughters he fathered. Adultery follows at age 39 (with a man 15 years older, whose mouth tasted of dentures), then separation and, finally, less negative feelings about her life. Moore seems to have a knack for meeting ugly people, whom she describes almost as vividly as she describes food. There are several wonderful essays?relatively free of autobiography?that stand alone as social histories of various foods?potatoes, for instance?and rabbits. There's a darkly funny train trip from Oakland, Calif., to New Orleans that reads like a sly send-up of early Joan Didion. There are moving thoughts on the meaning of canning and applesauce-making. And there is an endless, leaden account of a church supper that begins patronizingly and goes on to include every cliche of small-town life from Winesburg, Ohio, to Peyton Place. Moore is a wonderful food writer but a labored memoirist.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Judith Moore dishes up more than just her life story in Never Eat Your Heart Out, a mélange of unforgettable meals and bittersweet memories. In each of the 25 chapters, food and life experiences are inextricably linked. In "Pie" a meditation on the pleasure of making mud pies conjures up a particular afternoon in the author's childhood when thunder, chicken pie, and a dead baby bird converged to form a memory that is still sharp. In "Eating Peter Rabbit" the author changes gears, embarking on a thorough discussion of the differences between rabbits and hares, the reason why the majority of Americans won't eat either ("We gag on cute."), and the history of rabbits and the culinary arts from ancient times to the present. Another chapter, "Adultery," describes Moore's extramarital affair in terms of the meals she cooked while it occurred. In Never Eat Your Heart Out, Judith Moore follows in the grand tradition of M.F.K. Fisher, one of the first to understand that writing about food is really writing about life. Like Fisher before her, Moore creates a feast with her evocative prose; mouthwatering meals; and profound conclusions about life, love, and cooking. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Recollections of food?good and bad, ranging from breakfasts and picnics to watermelon and cranberries?trigger memories that shape this untidy grab bag of autobiographical sketches. Moore's first three and a half years were full of happy times with Daddy; then comes her parents' divorce, and she's shipped off to a farm to be raised by an evil grandmother right out of the Brothers Grimm. We're not told where, except that it's in Snow Country. Adolescence is next, and an early marriage to a dreary, small-town boy only remembered for his shoe size and the daughters he fathered. Adultery follows at age 39 (with a man 15 years older, whose mouth tasted of dentures), then separation and, finally, less negative feelings about her life. Moore seems to have a knack for meeting ugly people, whom she describes almost as vividly as she describes food. There are several wonderful essays?relatively free of autobiography?that stand alone as social histories of various foods?potatoes, for instance?and rabbits. There's a darkly funny train trip from Oakland, Calif., to New Orleans that reads like a sly send-up of early Joan Didion. There are moving thoughts on the meaning of canning and applesauce-making. And there is an endless, leaden account of a church supper that begins patronizingly and goes on to include every cliche of small-town life from Winesburg, Ohio, to Peyton Place. Moore is a wonderful food writer but a labored memoirist.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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