The Man Who Ate Everything : and other gastronomic feats, disputes, and pleasurable pursuits / Jeffrey Steingarten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steingarten, Jeffrey.

Contributor:

Kretschmann, Karin (Illustrator), illustrator.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gastronomy--Humor.

Gastronomy.

Food--Humor.

Food.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)

Steingarten, Jeffrey (autograph)

Physical Description:

ix, [1], 514, [2] pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Contents:

Introduction: The Man Who Ate Everything

Part One. Nothing but the Truth. Primal Bread; Staying Alive; Why Aren't the French Dropping Like Flies?; Totally Mashed; Water; Ripeness Is All; Hot Dog; Playing Ketchup

Part Two. Help Yourself. Le Régime Montignac; The Waiting Game; Vegging Out; High Satiety; Sweet Smell of Sex; Going for the Burn

Part Three. Stirring Things Up. Salad the Silent Killer; Just Say Yes; Salt; Pain Without Gain; Murder, My Sweet; A Fat of No Consequence

Part Four. Journey of a Thousand Meals. True Choucroute; Hail Cesare!; Where's the Wagyu? Kyoto Cuisine; Creatures from the Blue Lagoon; Rosemary and Moon Beans; Going Whole Hog; Ingredients in Search of a Cuisine; Out of North Africa; Variations on a Theme; The Mother of All Ice Cream; Hauts Bistros

Part Five. Proof of the Pudding. The Smith Family Fruitcake; Fries; Fish Without Fire; Back of the Box; Repairman; Big Bird; Pies from Paradise.

Notes:

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.

Illustrations by Karin Kretschmann.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Kislak copy has inscribed message pasted on front free endpaper "London September 6, 1999. For Fritz, Teacher, cook, gastronome. With best wishes, Jeffrey".

Kislak copy is "First Edition".

ISBN:

0679430881

OCLC:

36510559

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page