Eat Live Love Die (eBook)

Betty Fussell (Autor)

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2016
323 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-861-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Thoughts on foodand lifefrom ';one of the culinary world's treasures' (TheWall Street Journal). Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. This is a woman who at eighty-two years old, and despite being half-blind, went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with her son, Sam. (She got her deer.) This is a woman who decided to teach herself Latin and German from scratch (on top of teaching herself how to cook) as a young twenty-one-year-old bride, because housewifery wasn't enough. Her essays on food, travel, and the arts are legendary, and she is a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award. This wide-ranging anthology presents a collection of her writing, witty, personal, profound, and filled with ';a restless intelligence and energy' (The Washington Post). ';Very funny and inspiring. Some of the best essays here are the most recent, written in Fussell's dotage. Aging is a hot literary topic these days, but no one else I've read has captured the bizarre acceleration of time as we age quite the way Fussell does.' Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air ';Whether she's writing about food, her primary matter (though this covers everything from mayonnaise to Jell-O), her complex family life or culinary superstars like M.F.K. Fisher and Alice Waters (who provides the introduction here), Fussell is a gifted essayist and a meditative thinker, as enriching and relevant as she makes her subjects.' TheNew York Times Book Review

Autor

Born in Southern California in 1927, Betty Fussell grew up in Riverside, took her BA at Pomona College, married her college sweetheart Paul Fussell, took an MA at Radcliffe College while he finished his PhD at Harvard University. After teaching English at Connecticut College and Douglass College, she finished her PhD at Rutgers University and taught there before moving to New York City, where she taught literature and film at the New School for Social Research and writing at Columbia University. In the 1980s she left teaching to write full time.Her most recent, and eleventh, book is Raising Steaks: The Life & Times of American Beef (2008). In this she takes up the historical epic she began in The Story of Corn (1992), which won the IACP’s Jane Grigson Award for Scholarship. In between she wrote a food memoir, My Kitchen Wars (1999), which was performed in Hollywood and New York as a one-woman show by actress Dorothy Lyman. In 2007 she won a James Beard Foundation Award for Journalism for “American Prime” in Saveur’s Steak Issue of July. She was recently celebrated, along with other winners of the Silver Spoon Award, by Food Arts Magazine, for which she has long been a contributing authority.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Schlagworte: aging • Agriculture • Alice Water • Alice Waters • Bettie • Biography • cookbooks • Culinary • Essays • farming • Food • food essays • food history • food writing • Fusel • Fusell • fussel • Gardening • getting older • growing • History • James Beard Foundation • Memoir • Nonfiction • Short Stories • Traveling • Woman
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-861-1 / 1619028611
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-861-6 / 9781619028616