Saturday, July 16, 2005
Booklist: Summer Reading for Foodies
Rachel Forrest at the Portsmouth (NH) Herald offers this reading list for food lovers, including The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality by Jesse Browner; the biographical Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of MFK Fisher; The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski, "about Bernard Loiseau the French chef who lost one of his three coveted Michelin stars and committed suicide," which explores the Michelin guide rating system; The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World, funny essays by Lawrence Osborne; et al.
