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Title: The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison ISBN: 0-8021-3937-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I HATE THIS BOOK
Comment: Jim Harrison is a pretentious fop who needs to hang with real life for a little while.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious
Comment: Harrison will make you laugh outloud with his views on our society. He does, however, make some very serious points and not all is in jest. He shows that you can't write about food without touching on all aspects of our lives as human beings.
Rating: 4
Summary: Down with Chicken Breast!!
Comment: Jim Harrison walks in a world where people routinely stuff animals inside other animals, saute the sweetbreads to feed the cat, and routinely have soft-shell crab FedExed to their remote writerly outposts. This is evident from reading "the Raw and the Cooked", a collection of his food essays which appeared in Esquire and Men's Journal, among other barometers of male taste.
(...)Harrison is at his best detailing those hidden corners of America that are quickly vanishing from our contracting universe where new advances in cuisine are largely limited to colored ketchups. And we both decry the flavorless but universal boneless, skinless chicken breast kept on menus everywhere for its entirely unprovocative nature, usually presented with all the flare and originality of an Alvarado Strret whore. The lengths to which Harrison will go NOT to eat a boring meal are fun to read, as is his continually incongruous Republican bashing. His writing is as relevant to your life as you would like it to be.
Where Harrison gets off-target is in his frequent name dropping of business and personal associates. Do we really care that he's pals with Harrison Ford or has made moon-eyes across the table with Winona Ryder? Save that for tarpon fishing trips with Hunter Thompson and Jack Nicholoson. Also, some of the contents of his backwoods pantry seem a bit fantastic, especially for those of us who live 400 miles away from the nearest specialty grocer. Fresh serranos, ground chiltepins, dried posole, etc are all instantly at his fingertips whenever necessary for an impromptu midday snack. It does liven up his writing, however.
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Title: Off to the Side: A Memoir by Jim Harrison ISBN: 0802140300 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Jim Harrison (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Robert J. Demott, Jim Harrison ISBN: 1578064562 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Accidental Connoisseur : An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World by Lawrence Osborne ISBN: 0865476330 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Just Before Dark by Jim Harrison ISBN: 061800193X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Braided Creek by Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser ISBN: 155659187X Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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