Steal the Menu
  • Published: 15 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307946355
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00
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Steal the Menu

A Memoir of Forty Years in Food

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14 May 2013
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15 Feb 2014
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Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed--and participated in--the twentieth-century food revolution and a delicious tour through contemporary food history.

Part autobiography, part culinary history, Steal the Menu is former New York Times food editor Raymond Sokolov’s account of four decades of eating. From his pathbreaking dispatches on nouvelle cuisine in France to finding top-notch Chinese dishes at a New Jersey gas station to picking the brain of the most Michelin-starred chef in the world, Sokolov captures the colorful characters and mouth watering meals that define food today. Throughout, he shares a lifetime of  personal anecdotes, including infuriating President Nixon’s daughter over a wedding cake, as well as prescient observations on one of the most tumultuous—and exciting—periods in gastronomic history.
  • Published: 15 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307946355
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Steal the Menu

  • COVER QUOTE: "Peppered with reflections on culinary history and tales of extraordinary journalistic adventures, Steal the Menu is a thought-provoking and delightful read." --Fuchsia Dunlop, author of Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking
  • "As gastronomic guides go, you can't do much better than former New York Times and Wall Street Journal restaurant critic Raymond Sokolov, whose jaunty prose in Steal the Menu gets you a tableside seat everywhere from Tennessee barbeque pits to French haute cuisine temples." --Entertainment Weekly
  • "A knowledgeable look at the transformation of fine dining over the past half-century.... Foodies will find this book refreshingly different." --Kirkus Reviews

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