Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter - Rilegato

Gill, Adrian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0297851918 ISBN 13: 9780297851912

Casa editrice: Orion, 2007

Riassunto

AA Gill knows food, and loves food. He's an unashamedly intolerant perfectionist whose witty observations and scathing criticism have been the highlight of reading the Sunday papers for over ten years. His fearsome knowledge, and fearless honesty, make him one of the most respected critics to walk through a restaurant's doors.

A meal is never just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a metaphor for life. AA Gill delights in decoding what lies behind the food on our plates: famously, his reviews are as much ruminations on society at large as they are about the restaurants themselves. So alongside the concepts, customers and cuisines, ten years of writing about restaurants has yielded insights on everything from yaks to cowboys, picnics to politics.

Table Talk is an idiosyncratic selection of AA Gill's writing about food, taken from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it is a celebration of what great eating can be, an excoriation of those who get it wrong, and an education about our own appetites. Because it spans a decade, the book focuses on AA Gill's general dining experiences rather than individual restaurants - food fads, tipping, chefs, ingredients, eating in town and country and abroad, and the best and worst dining experiences. Fizzing with wit, it is a treat for gourmands, gourmets and anyone who relishes good writing.

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'At his best, Gill shows how real insight into a culture can be gleaned from the manner in which its food is produced, distributed, prepared and consumed' (Matthew Taunton NEW STATESMAN)

'Certainly a book that whets the appetite and an ideal Christmas present for the foodie in your life' (Tom Galvin DUBLIN EVENING HERALD)

'Infuriating and funny in equal measure, but always delectably readable' (BIG ISSUE (Scotland))

'What sets Gill apart from the upper middle-class politically incorrect pontificators is that he's interested in people (even if he doesn't always like them) and writes in a clear, economical, puissant style' (THE LIST)

'His reporting, within the space of a few sentences, can be honest, romantic, awestruck, damning, hilarious but, importantly, never sentimental or patronising' (TIME OUT)

'Gill is a delightful, funny polemicist. His prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee and, just when you least expect it, lands a deft and lethal blow beneath the belt' (SUNDAY TIMES)

'He entertains like a vicious game show' (GLASGOW HERALD)

'It annoys, arouses feelings and forces one to confront received opinions. Whether one sides with it or not, one can admire the zest of the writing and applaud its splendid lack of political correctness' (Beryl Bainbridge MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Descrizione del libro

The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0297851918
• ISBN 13: 9780297851912
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288