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The man who ate too much : the life of James Beard
/ John Birdsall
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W. W. Norton & Company
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2020
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First edition.
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| Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials | 92 BIOGRAPHY BEARD | Check Shelf | ||
| Cheshire Public Library - New Materials | NEW BIOGRAPHY BIRDSALL | Check Shelf | ||
| Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials | B BEARD J. | Check Shelf | ||
| Enfield, Main Library - New Materials | B BEARD | Check Shelf | ||
| Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials | BIO BEARD | Check Shelf | ||
| Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Nonfiction | B BEARD | Check Shelf | ||
| Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials | B BEARD, J. | Check Shelf |
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First edition.
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xiv, 449 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-433) and index.
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| Summary |
"The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties synonymous with the nation's food for decades, even after his death in 1985. In the first biography of Beard in twenty-five years, acclaimed writer John Birdsall argues that Beard's struggles as a closeted gay man directly influenced his creation of an American cuisine. Starting in the 1920s, Beard escaped loneliness and banishment by traveling abroad to places where people ate for pleasure, not utility, and found acceptance at home by crafting an American ethos of food likewise built on passion and delight. Informed by never-before-tapped correspondence and lush with details of a golden age of home cooking, The Man Who Ate Too Much is a commanding portrait of a towering figure who still represents the best in food"-- Provided by publisher.
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9780393635713 (hardcover)
0393635716 (hardcover)
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