Between Meals by A.J. Liebling related-between-meals-by-a-j-liebling We set out to collect

We set out to collect our grandmother's recipes to share them with our extended family

Many of these recipes require having two obedient children who'll willingly labor over ridiculous tasks like molding fresh goat cheese using cheesecloth to achieve "a beautiful imprint" or hollowing out cherry tomatoes and then artfully filling them with haricots verts

In Buwei Yang Chao we have a guide who is modern and brilliant and droll and down-to-earth

The Culinary Arts Institute in Chicago produced these—the women who edited them had names like Edna and Ethel and Phyllis and Louise

I know a guy

Between Meals by A.J. Liebling related-between-meals-by-a-j-liebling We set out to collectThis book is one of my father's favorites. It's about a man's man who loves sport and women and food and drink and Paris. These are all thing my father loves, as well. I imagine that he and Liebling would have gotten along if they found themselves sitting next to one another at dinner on an ocean liner from New York to Southampton, eating and smoking and recounting boxing matches, then making plans to gad about the arrondissements once they arrived