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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell [0316003379, Format: PDF]

  • Title: Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
  • Autor: Julie Powell
  • Print Length: 320 pages
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (November 17, 2010)
  • Language: English
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  • ISBN-10: 9780316003360, 0316003379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316003360, 978-0316003377
  • File Format: PDF

 
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she’d ever do–until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer’s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs–tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.

The camaraderie at Fleischer’s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world–from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.

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A Really Big Lunch: Meditations on Food and Life from the Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison [0802126464, Format: EPUB]

  • Title: A Really Big Lunch: Meditations on Food and Life from the Roving Gourmand
  • Autor: Jim Harrison
  • Print Length: 288 pages
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Grove Press (March 24, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B01MXOP9VF
  • ISBN-10: 0802126464
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802126467
  • File Format: EPUB
“[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.”—Jane and Michael Stern, New York Times Book Review on The Raw and the Cooked

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as “the poet laureate of appetite” (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, collects many of his food pieces for the first time—and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.

Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

“Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.” —John Skowles, San Diego Union-Tribune on The Raw and the Cooked

Review

”Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious.” –Wall Street Journal ”A celebration of eating well and drinking even better as a recipe for the good life.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

About the Author

Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the author of over thirty-five books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter. His writing appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and the New York Times. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. His work has been recognized worldwide and published in twenty-two languages.Audiobook Narrator Bio: Joe Barrett has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials. He has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. He has narrated books by such authors as Trevanian, Brian Freeman, Don Winslow, and James W. Huston.

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Album di famiglia by Matteo Santoni [B01MU6AXSX, Format: EPUB]

  • Title: Album di famiglia
  • Autor: Matteo Santoni
  • Print Length:
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Matteo Santoni (31 dicembre 2016)
  • Language: Italiano
  • ASIN: B01MU6AXSX
  • ISBN-10:
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  • File Format: EPUB

 
La Lucania non esiste più sulle mappe geografiche, ma questo non ha permesso la scomparsa della forte identità sociale e culturale di quel territorio dimenticato, nel quale la vita scorre inesorabile in un interscambio viscerale tra i suoi abitanti e il loro intorno.

È una storia questa di donne e di uomini, ognuno a proprio modo con l’esigenza di un riscatto che stenta ad arrivare anche a livello personale. Sono percorsi di gente che rimane, che fugge, che capita lì, che ritorna, in un angolo di Lucania dove ancora oggi è difficile arrivare perché forse Cristo è ancora fermo a Eboli.