Food! Glorious Food! A Book Review Edition
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A Life of James Beard Stocked With Tasty Morsels
James Beard in his kitchen in 1961, demonstrating how to flambé. He won the trust of readers as an “unfussy bon vivant, as much in love with a good club sandwich as he was with veal Oscar.”
By Ligaya Mishan
THE MAN WHO ATE TOO MUCH
The Life of James Beard
By John Birdsall
Illustrated. 449 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $35.
A Life of James Beard Stocked With Tasty Morsels
James Beard in his kitchen in 1961, demonstrating how to flambé. He won the trust of readers as an “unfussy bon vivant, as much in love with a good club sandwich as he was with veal Oscar.”
By Ligaya Mishan
THE MAN WHO ATE TOO MUCH
The Life of James Beard
By John Birdsall
Illustrated. 449 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $35.
