{"product_id":"life-is-meals-a-food-lovers-book-of-days-9780375711398","title":"Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLife Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days\u003c\/strong\u003e by Salter, James. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780375711398.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the PEN\/Faulkner Award–winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and terrific hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated food lover’s companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year’s Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors’ own stories of their triumphs—and catastrophes—in the kitchen.\nFor instance:\nThe menu on the Titanic on the fatal night\nReflections on dining from Queen Victoria, JFK, Winnie the Pooh, Garrison Keillor, and many others\nThe seductiveness of a velvety Brie or the perfect martini\nHow to decide whom to invite to a dinner party—and whom not to\nJohn Irving’s family recipe for meatballs; Balzac’s love of coffee\nThe greatest dinner ever given at the White House\nWhere in Paris Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had French onion soup at 4:00 a.m.\n\nSophisticated as well as practical, opinionated, and indispensable, Life Is Meals is a tribute to the glory of food and drink, and the joy of sharing them with others. “The meal is the emblem of civilization,” the Salters observe. “What would one know of life as it should be lived, or nights as they should be spent, apart from meals?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256084193333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375711392","price":35.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375711398_037a5bab-0813-465c-9e01-9f638d924292.jpg?v=1781283414","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/life-is-meals-a-food-lovers-book-of-days-9780375711398","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}