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REVIEW by Esther Cohen
Eating by Jason Epstein
Knopf, October 2009
Hardcover 192 pp., ISBN: 9781400042968
Jason Epstein, illustrious book editor and publisher (Mailer, Nabokov, Vidal, Doctorow are just a few), fell in love with food as a young boy, even eating his grandmother’s not-altogether-good chicken pot pie. He has been cooking all his life and publishing food books, too. (Alice Waters, Mario Batali, Julia Childs, Irma Rombauer are just a few of his famous food friends.) Eating is Epstein’s own wonderful food book, a book of memories and recipes. It’s even beautiful: brown type for recipes, black for the narrative text. He loves eating, and knows how to tell us why. (I love eating, too.)
December 9, 2009