OP: The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat
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Free Press, New York, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. First printing.
A piece about food appeared on the front page of The New York Times for the first time in 1959. Its author, Craig Claiborne (1920–2000), had the audacity to critique the waning state of haute cuisine in the US at a time when restaurant criticism in journalism simply did not exist. “What nobody realized,” says Thomas McNamee in this biography of Claiborne, “was that Craig Claiborne was going to become the most powerful force American food had ever known.”
The statement might sound like an exaggeration, but even the most superficial research into the American food renaissance of the 1960s–1970s reveals that Claiborne was behind some of the biggest names and cultural trends of the time. He played no small part in making Paul Bocuse, Jacques Pepin, Paul Prudhomme, Julia Child, Macella Hazan, Maida Heatter, Madhur Jaffrey, and Diana Kennedy, among others, household names.
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat (2012) is a fantastically thorough and engaging glimpse into the life and influence of a man who did exactly what the title purports. We’re pleased to offer a first printing in Fine condition. Hardcover.