{"product_id":"a-really-big-lunch-the-roving-gourmand-on-food-and-life-9780802126467","title":"A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\" A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.\"--Jane and Michael Stern, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as \"the poet laureate of appetite\" (\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eA Really Big Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison's death, collects many of his food pieces for the first time--and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in \u003ci\u003eA Really Big Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e. From the titular \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from \u003ci\u003eBrick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, \u003ci\u003eA Really Big Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e is shot through with Harrison's pointed aper us and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last three decades. \u003ci\u003eA Really Big Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.\" --John Skowles, \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802126467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2017 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2017 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jim Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643397206172,"sku":"9780802126467","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eb91d365-0ce9-475c-91df-5990db16913d.jpg?v=1603856548","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-really-big-lunch-the-roving-gourmand-on-food-and-life-9780802126467","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}