Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet is a splendid sampler of essays that have appeared in Gourmet Magazine - that highlights cuisine and travel. Cherished cookery writers like M.F.K. Fisher, Paul Theroux and Laurie Colwin are featured alongside other authors whose works are not so familiar.
This book will appeal to those interested in travel and food. Especially to those who enjoy responses to some of our most basic of activities, eating and drinking and how they are inextricably linked to our emotions and memories. The essays deal with eating and drinking in some way, but each of the authors has a very unique way of dealing with the subject.
Fans of publishers Modern Library would love their compact format, and the typeface which is clear and readable. If you love good writing, this book is a real treat. This collection of writings about food, drink, travel, biography, and fiction are put together from the pages of `Gourmet' magazine from the magazine's founding in the late 1930s to the present. The selections have been made by the magazine's current editor, Ruth Reichl.
One setback with this book for the dedicated reader of culinary writing is that perhaps they may have read these articles or many of them in other sources. Also it is not a book you can read from cover to cover. It is the kind of book you take with you to waiting rooms for passing the time. How ever it does provides a peek into what people ate and how they liked their food through the years. This book will definitely be a great addition to a food-lovers' library.
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