{"product_id":"gourmands-way-paperback","title":"Gourmands' Way - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Spring\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary History.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The broad outline of Spring's thesis is so persuasive, the details so evocative (not to mention mouth watering), that anyone interested in the evolution of cooking in America will find \u003ci\u003eThe Gourmands' Way\u003c\/i\u003e informative and indispensable.\" --Wendy Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the thirty-year boom in France following World War II--\u003ci\u003eles Trente Glorieuses\u003c\/i\u003e--Paris was not only the world's most stylish tourist destination, it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius. In \u003ci\u003eThe Gourmands' Way\u003c\/i\u003e, Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers having the time of their lives in the City of Light during this period and, in doing so, transforming the way Americans talk and think about food--and the way they eat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe six are A. J. Liebling, Alice B. Toklas, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Alexis Lichine, and Richard Olney. \u003ci\u003eThe Gourmands' Way \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book ever to look at these unforgettable figures as a group. It is also the first to focus specifically on their Paris-based adventures. Liebling was a great war correspondent, reporter, and humorist who opens Spring's narrative by sweeping into Paris with the French and Allied forces in August 1944; Toklas was Gertrude Stein's life partner who reinvented herself at age seventy-five as a cookbook author; Fisher was a sensualist storyteller and fabulist; Child was a cookbook author, America's greatest television food celebrity, and the reinventor of the dinner party; Lichine was an ambitious wine merchant who, through an astounding series of risk-taking ventures, became the leading importer of French wines in America; and Olney was a reclusive but freewheeling artist who reluctantly evolved into one of the foremost American writers on French cuisine and French wine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJustin Spring focuses on the most joyful, exciting, formative, and dramatic moments of these six lives, many of which were intimately connected to the exploration and discovery of fine French food and drink--whether they experienced it at top Michelin-starred restaurants or straight from a hot plate in an artist's garret. \u003ci\u003eThe Gourmands' Way \u003c\/i\u003eleads us through both the fabled world of haute cuisine and the vibrant bohemian and artistic haunts of the Left Bank during the 1950s. Intimate, anecdotal, and beautifully researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Gourmands' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWay\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening exploration of the rich, storied annals of mid-twentieth-century Franco-American culinary history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Spring\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture, and the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including \u003ci\u003eSecret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFairfield Porter: A Life in Art\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePaul Cadmus: The Male Nude\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45335840391270,"sku":"9780374538019","price":39.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Y0pibXo3eW5lSFE0M2QwVW5kQXJyZz09.webp?v=1774593997","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/gourmands-way-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}