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Serious Reads: The Table Comes First, by Adam Gopnik

In a sea of books about how to cook, what we should eat, and the history of various ingredients, few authors seek to synthesize all three questions into one historical view of cookery and cuisine. In his new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, author Adam Gopnik attempts to do just that. He cites books and quotes spanning from historical figures to modern-day chefs in his quest to understand how we got to our culinary present. Unfortunately, the book is a bit too scattered to provide new insight into the history or future of gastronomy.

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Post a Comment | Posted by Leah Douglas, November 20, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Tagged: Adam Gopnik, book reviews, books, Serious Reads, The Table Comes First

What Is Adam Gopnik Talking About?

In this week's New Yorker, Adam Gopnik muses on the role food and cooking play in fiction. Gopnik is a very smart fellow, loves food, and is often a lovely, affecting, clear-eyed writer (I remember a wonderful story he wrote about his late mentor Kirk Varnedoe teaching his kids to play football in Central Park), but for the life of me I can't figure out what he's trying to say in this piece. Maybe I'm not well-read enough. So if anybody else can figure it out, please comment....

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3 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, April 4, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Tagged: Adam Gopnik, fiction, literature, New Yorker