A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison\'s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . zingers as well as plenty of half-baked, hilarious theories you can ponder while planning your first summer barbecue.-- The Paris Review. . .
The collection is chockablock with .
Lovingly introduced by master chef Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.
And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison\'s Life over the last fifteen years.
Harrison\'s Food writing is a program for living, and A Really Big Lunch is shot through with his pointed aper us and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses.
He delights in Food from the most outr indulgence (a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses) to a simple bowl of menudo.
In these pieces, Harrison muses on the relationship between hunter and prey, interrogates the obscure language of wine reviews, and delivers a manifesto against the bland, mass-produced Food of our time, proposing instead what he calls the Vivid Diet.
The more we have of his voice, the better.-- Boston Globe A national bestseller and an Amazon Best Book of the Month in the Cookbook/Food & Wine category, now in paperback, A Really Big Lunch collects many of New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison\'s essays on Food for the first time--and taps into his larger-than-Life appetite with wit and verve.
His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. . .
A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison\'s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well
