The raw and the cooked : adventures of a roving gourmand

Harrison, Jim 1937-2016 (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 080213937X
ISBN: 9780802139375
Physical Description: print
viii, 271 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, ©2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Prologue: The 10,000-Calorie Diet -- Sporting Food -- Eat or Die -- Meals of Peace and Restoration -- Hunger, Real and Unreal -- Then and Now -- Consciousness Dining -- The Tugboats of Costa Rica -- Midrange Road Kill -- The Panic Hole -- Piggies Come to Market -- The Fast -- The Raw and the Cooked -- What Have We Done with the Thighs? -- The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks -- One Foot in the Grave -- Just Before Dark -- Cooking Your Life -- Ignoring Columbus -- Eating Close to the Ground -- Return of the Native, or Lighten Up -- Let's Get Lost -- Principles -- The Last Best Place? -- The Morality of Food -- Contact -- Coming to Our Senses -- Walking the San Pedro -- Back Home -- Repulsion and Grace -- Outlaw Cook -- Unmentionable Cuisine -- Heart Food in L.A. -- Fresh Southern Air -- Borderlands -- Versions of Reality -- Adventures of a Roaming Gourmand -- Thirty-three Angles on Eating French -- Wild Creatures: A Correspondence with Gerard Oberle -- American Food Journal -- Wine -- Meatballs -- Epilogue: A Huge Hunger in Paris.