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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
The Raw and the Cooked Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
Author: Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harriso...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802139375
ISBN-10: 080213937X
Publication Date: 9/17/2002
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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(From the back cover) Mario Batali said of this writer "Jim Harrison is the Homer, the Michelangelo, the Lamborghini, the Willie Mays, the Secretariat of words...his words are the lust-filled poems of an expert, a hunter, an eater."

This is a guy's book of hunting, cooking, eating, and name dropping of famous people (he is also a screenwriter for Hollywood). A very different kind of "food" book!
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Jim Harrison's essays are just great. He has a passion for real food, as opposed to "zoo food" fed to us animals by corporate agri-businesses and Macfranchises. And he recommends lots of red wine, as all the doctors are telling us now anyway. A great read.


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