{"product_id":"between-meals-an-appetite-for-paris-9780865472365","title":"Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, \u003ci\u003eBetween Meals: An Appetite for Paris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his nostalgic review of his Rabelaisian initiation into life's finer pleasures, Liebling celebrates the richness and variety of French food, fondly recalling great meals and memorable wines. He writes with awe and a touch of envy of his friend and mentor Yves Mirande, \"one of the last great gastronomes of France,\" who would dispatch a lunch of \"raw Bayonne ham and fresh figs, a hot sausage in crust, spindles of filleted pike in a rich rose \u003ci\u003esauce Nantua\u003c\/i\u003e, a leg of lamb larded with anchovies, artichokes on a pedestal of foie gras, and four or five kinds of cheese, with a good bottle of Bordeaux and one of Champagne\"--all before beginning to contemplate dinner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn A.J. Liebling, a great writer and a great eater became one, for he offers readers a rare and bountiful feast in this delectable book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an introduction by James Salter, PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.J. Liebling\u003c\/b\u003e joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935, where his \"Wayward Press\" columns became a model of fine journalistic writing. Other Liebling titles available from North Point Press are \u003ci\u003eBetween Meals, The Honest Rainmaker, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Neutral Corner: Uncollected Boxing Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631282426130,"sku":"9780865472365","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61fe3e60-7ce9-45ed-8a52-f9e4ced47429.jpg?v=1732767352","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/between-meals-an-appetite-for-paris-9780865472365","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}