Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
A. J. Liebling
There are few writers who can make us want to pack our bags and jump on a plane just so we can lunch in Paris. Liebling is one of those writers. A contemporary of Hemingway in Paris, Liebling makes us wish for a time machine to go along with our plane ticket.
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris is Liebling’s look back at his early years in Paris where he began his education of eating that continued throughout his life. He never considered himself a gourmet but rather an “eater.” And this served him well. Liebling tells us “The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Liebling wrote for The New Yorker for almost four decades. His numerous essays on the press, the sweet science (boxing), history, restaurants, eating, and the culinary world, have been collected in numerous volumes.
And for we foodies, we are lucky he had a prodigious appetite.
This book should be on every foodie’s bookshelf.
– J. Michael Wheeler
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