Out to Lunch

Urbane, intelligent food journalism, most of which first appeared in the London weekly, The Observer. Levy talks in these short pieces about everything in the world of food that interests or amuses him, from dining on dog in China ("What, you may ask, is classically drunk with dog?") to an entertaining expose, titled Foodiegate, of why Escoffier and Cesar Ritz were fired from the Savoy Hotel in 1898. A dozen brief profiles of some major icons of the food world, including Julia Child, catch each nicely in not many words. To read one of these essays each week would be a treat. Binding them between covers to be taken in a few gulps does them no favor; they are too episodic this way to satisfy. For large collections only. Ruth Diebold, M.L.S., Upper Nyack, N.Y.
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