The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner

Author:Dwight Garner [Garner, Dwight]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Culinary, Cooking, Essays & Narratives
ISBN: 9780374603427
Google: MJW0EAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0374603421
Goodreads: 65215109
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2023-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

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Fran Ross, in her stinging comic novel Oreo, suggests in nearly sexual terms the loss of control her narrator feels in a well-stocked market. In his memoir Lucky Bruce, Bruce Jay Friedman described the pangs he feels shopping alongside glowing young mothers, those “home-wreckers who assemble at my local Whole Foods at five in the afternoon.”

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I have a shopping list; a pen is gripped between my teeth. The pen will inevitably fail to work or fall and roll in a panko-coating of grit. Inevitably, too, the crucial item on my list will be sold out, so I must make enormous changes at the last minute. A few shopping lists are famous. One from Michelangelo survives. In the spring of 1518 he needed bread, fresh anchovies, and wine. A 1609 shopping list from Galileo survives, too, written on the back of a letter. Galileo desired, among other things, rice, spices, and sugar. Maybe he wanted a rice pudding. I hang on to shopping lists from memorable meals. I tuck them into the back pages of cookbooks or novels, where I find them years later, wondering what Cree or I was thinking, putting pork belly on everything.

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