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Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizingYou still eat meat With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts Americas recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes. It is a journey that begins in eighteenth-century Francethe birthplace of our modern tastes and, by no coincidence, of the restaurantand carries us to the kitchens of the White House, the molecular meccas of Barcelona, and beyond.
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An American writer, essayist and commentator. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker - to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism - and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of the half-decade that Gopnik, wife Martha, and son Luke spent in the capital of France.
