{"product_id":"the-raw-and-the-cooked-adventures-of-a-roving-gourmand","title":"The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor the first time, all of Harrison's food writing is available in one volume. Any reader of Harrison's fiction is struck by the love for food, wine, and other sensual pleasures that permeates it--and anyone who has read his essays and journalism has encountered a food critic unlike any other: unpretentious, witty, and unabashedly passionate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: \"To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius -- one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life.\" From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal, and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. \"Our 'poet laureate of appetite' [Harrison] may be, but the collected essays here reflect much more.\" -- John Gamino, The Dallas Morning News \"[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah....\" -- Jane and Michael Stern, The New York Times Book Review \"Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious.\" -- Jeffrey Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1937, in Grayling, Michigan. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Harrison lived in Montana and Arizona before his death in 2016 at the age of seventy-eight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious. . . . By virtual of talent, Mr. Harrison would sit at the same table as A.J. Liebling and M.F.K. Fisher.\" \u003cb\u003e-Jeffrey Trachtenberg, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Crammed with aphorisms and oracular statements, these intemperate essays caper from willful paradox to moral outrage, embracing human frailties, delighting in pleasure and making a wise fool's case for the clarifying power of unmediated, physical experience. They're also screamingly funny. . . . Keep cooking, Jim. Your readers will want second helpings.\" \u003cb\u003e--Chris Waddington, \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like [Harrison's] favorite kind of meal, this collection of food essays is rich, manly, and unabashedly self-centered.\" \u003cb\u003e--Anne Stephenson, \u003ci\u003eArizona Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our \"poet laureate of appetite [Harrison] may be, but the collected essays here reflect much more. They amount to a thinking man's guide to the universe, suffused on the whole with the broadmindedness that comes of a lifetime of journeyman experience. . . . His opinions are served up in a delightfully curmudgeonly tone, but he has both the credentials to back them up and the good sense not to exchange soapbox for high horse. He is exacting but not boorish.\" \u003cb\u003e--John Gamino, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.\" \u003cb\u003e--John Skowles, \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Harrison is the Homer, the Michelangelo, the Lamborghini, the Willie Mays, the Secretariat of words, the peak of perfection in all writing, but achieves Jimi Hendrix solo perfection when he waxes the gristle about our most primordial need and luxury. His words are not the mere musings of an effete intellectual: these are the lust-filled poems of an expert, a hunter, an eater, a stalker, a rabid mongrel, and a drinker not afraid to get excited about the kinds of nuts a particular partridge must have eaten this morning to taste so damned good for lunch. And that the occasional breakfast of sow's heart needs to be anointed with even an off-vintage Bordeaux is not hidden, nay, celebrated in the deeply starving heart of America's greatest living writer. It is with total joy that I share my dinner table with a hero so honest, so erudite, so poetic, so huge in stature and genius, and yet so much himself a cook in the chuckwagon on a moose hunt in British Columbia. Most important, Harrison's words bring me the most guttural, the most thirst quenching, itch scratching, and ultimately satisfying feeling that he really knows and appreciates what makes my job as a cook so filled with joy, the smell and anticipation of a perfect and divine edible and drinkable moment.\" \u003cb\u003e--Mario Batali\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A rumination on the unholy trinity of sex, death and food, this long-awaited collection of gastronomic essays reads like the love child of M.F.K. Fisher and James Thorne--on acid. Harrison . . . writes with a passion for language equal to his passion for good food.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is impossible to pigeonhole this collection of essays-they are about hunting and cooking, eating and drinking, and are written in a style that is simultaneously sophisticated and earthy. . . . Most of us will never be lucky enough to share a meal with this 'roving gourmand, ' but this volume provides a satisfying alternative. An essential purchase.\" \u003cb\u003e--Wendy Miller, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cornucopia of culinary essays from \"the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious\" (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Harrison was one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he also wrote some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: \"To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius-one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Harrison's legendary \u003ci\u003eSmart \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003ecolumns, to current works including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for \u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and a paean to the humble meatball, \u003ci\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked\u003c\/i\u003e is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah.\" --Jane and Michael Stern, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 28 (EAN 9780802139375, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harrison, Jim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2002-09-17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Cooking|Essays \u0026amp; Narratives|Cooking|Regional \u0026amp; Cultural|American - General\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e Gastronomy|Food writers|United States|Harrison, Jim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802139375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9780802139375\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46999680155779,"sku":"SP-9780802139375","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9780802139375_spiral.png?v=1776823525","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/the-raw-and-the-cooked-adventures-of-a-roving-gourmand","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}