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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780446695107
ISBN: 0446695106
Label: Mysterious Press
Manufacturer: Mysterious Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 11, 2007
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Sales Rank: 85267
Studio: Mysterious Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
With her passion for fine food and, above all, her appetite for love and life, Gael Greene traces her rise from a Velveeta cocoon in the Midwest to powerful critic of New York magazine. Love and food, foreplay and fork play, haute cuisine and social history--all become inextricably linked as the author lifts the lid on her most provocative subject yet--herself. Along the way there are tales of her saucy erotic adventures and intimate portraits of the culinary icons of our time--Julia Child, André Soltner, James Beard, among others--and revealing dissections of New York's legendary "in" spots, including Elaine's, Le Bernardin, Le Cirque, Odeon, and Balthazar.
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Well, maybe you need to be 'a certain age', maybe you need to remember The Colony or have had the desire to get closer to the bone of New York's glamorous power by literally absorbing Woman's Wear Daily's 'Eye'- before "W" was a twinkle in John Fairchild's eye. Given some of the disappointed reviews brought forth here at Amazon, I can only think that the references are just too long ago, too obscure or too uninteresting to the new breed of Foodie. Too bad for them, I say.
But for those ... Read More
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My expectations weren't high and it still didn't meet them. This is such a bad book on so many levels.
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Whoa, this badly written, unsexy epic could have used some serious editing. I'm surprised, since I've enjoyed GG's witty reviews, but there's hardly an amusing line in this tome, which mostly chronicles Greene's narcissistic pursuit of celebs to wine, dine, and bed her. Talk about TMI! You'll come away from these pages feeling like you've eaten mediocre swill at an overrated restaurant; Greene evidently had all the depth of a finger bowl. I agree with others that Reichl's memoirs -- not to mention Fisher's ... Read More
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Will I ever finnish this tedious tome? An excess of ego and pointless information. Ruth Reichel's exsquiste "Comfort Me with Apples" benefitted from a genius of editing, I longed for more. With Insatiable I want less. Ms. Greene sometimes writes about food as if it were ad copy.
I had to laugh when she wonders after her second one night stand with Clint Eastwood "I wondered if there could have been something more beyond the hotel room that night"....
I would urge anyone interested ... Read More
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I was so looking forward to another food critic's life story like Ruth Reichl's Garlic and Sapphire - one of the best books I have ever read.
I was seriously dissappointed. I realize that at the time Greene became a food critic, critics were well known by the restauranteurs and treated like Queens with special menus the rest of the people dining did not ever see, but I had no idea how bad it was. To think everyones opinion was determined by a few egotistical food critics in New York who never ate ... Read More
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