Author: DAY-LEWIS, TAMASIN
Title: Where Shall We Go For Dinner?
Description: Phoenix, UK. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780753824467 288 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Tamasin and her companion Rob set out with no real plan for the forthcoming year other than that each trip offers the possibility of perfection and discovery of something new.: Whether investigating the food scene in San Francisco, sipping a cocktail in Venice, or walking down Sullivan St in New York to dine on fried chicken at the Blue Ribbon, they always set out in hope of the perfect dinner. They may find it at a small caf? in the hills of Santo Stefano Belbo in Piemonte, or snacking on falafel in a warm wad of pitta bread at Mamoun's, a hole in the wall in Greenwich Village. : Sometimes they try too hard and don't find it at all, but even the disappointment is food for thought...and there is always tomorrow. : Amazon Review: The jacket for Tamasin Day-Lewis' Were Shall We Go for Dinner? is simplicity itself: a plain, off-white matt sleeve with a simple line drawing of a plate, knife and fork and the strapline ‘A food romance'. And that is exactly what this is. The author's relationship to the meals here goes beyond simple culinary judgments into the realms of the sensuous: food is described with a poetic intensity that would put Coleridge or Wordsworth to shame. And it is not just the fare in the various restaurants that Day-Lewis conjures up for us on her romantic Italian journey, but the experience of travelling to the restaurants themselves: for instance, meandering back along the Grand Canal, we stop off at the Gelateria San Giorgio on the Via Garibaldi and get talking to the owner, another Giorgio, and are quite unable to pick a flavour from the stupendously good-looking ice creams which he makes in a tiny room in the back of the little shop.: In fact, the whole book is a delirious trip through the many and varied byways of Italian food and cooking, but it isn't all enthusiasm (‘Here we are in Puglia and our first degustiazione is some tiredly, oh so deeply fried battered vegetables and unidentifiable fishy things, the tepid oil seeping into our fingers.') Mostly, however, this is a book to fill us full of envy for the tempting eleven-course adventure described in this memoir/love story with Tamasin Day-Lewis and her American boyfriend travelling through Italy to indulge in some amazing food. And envy is just what such celebrities as Richard Grant and Michael Palin have felt for the experiences in the book -- but they still been happy to lend their recommendations to it. --Barry Forshaw -- : Review: her advice is unpretentious and the book undeniably entertaining (OBSERVER): beguiling fusion of memoir, food and travel writing, peppered with recipes (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY): A delightful reminiscence of a lifetime of appreciative eating (GOOD BOOK GUIDE) Size: 12.8 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm. 288 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Miscellaneous; Paperback; ISBN: 0753824469. ISBN/EAN: 9780753824467. Inventory No: F246-1130.

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