For Dwight Garner, great literature and gourmand dining pair so well, he’s written a book about it
Food & Drink. That’s to say an avid reader. He is also an avid foodie and his upcoming book combines those twin passions – like jam on bread – in the most delicious way. The title says it all:“The upstairs delicatessen” is a phrase used by critic Seymour Krim to refer to his memory. Garner’s own upstairs delicatessen is well stocked. “Other books have approached food from the context of literature,” he notes.
Having sketched in his formative years as a chubby kid whose after-school reading was accompanied by pretzels and cookies and whose mother’s cooking he couldn’t get enough of, we are treated to disquisitions on everything from literary breakfasts to the “long and generous” working lunch. There are many life lessons to be found here. How to weather a hangover , what you should do with potatoes if you have arthritis , how to nail a seating plan and what to do if you’re sat between two bores . According to writer Virginia Faulkner and diplomat Jerry Wadsworth, questions guaranteed to liven conversation include, “Are you a bed wetter?” and, “Do you like string?” Try them some time.to live.
Ruminations on sex abound, including this salty aside on poultry: “Michael Ruhlman has a roast chicken recipe that says: put the chicken in the oven; go have sex; when you’re done, so too will be the chicken. I once mentioned this during a panel discussion… The critic Daniel Mendelsohn drily commented, ‘Whenever I try that, my chicken gets burned to a crisp.’”
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