Table of Contents
Introduction by Mario Batali ix
Eat Your Heart Out (Smoke Signals, 1981) 1
Food for Thought (Smoke Signals, 1982) 4
The Dead Food Scrolls (Smoke Signals, 1983) 9
The Vivid Diet (Unpublished, 1986) 14
Father-in-Law (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 1995) 22
Wine Notes (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) 24
Is Winemaking an Art? (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) 28
My Problems with White Wine (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2002) 31
Eat or Die (Brick, 2003) 35
Paris Rebellion (Brick, 2003) 39
Odious Comparisons (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2004) 44
Wine Criticism and Literary Criticism (Part II) (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2004) 47
Food, Sex, and Death (Brick, 2004) 52
A Really Big Lunch (New Yorker, 2004) 58
Carte 69
Tongue (Brick, 2004) 82
Ducks (Molto Italiano, 2005) 88
Wine Strategies (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2005) 91
Resuming the Pleasure (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2005) 95
Snake-Eating (Brick, 2005) 100
Bear Posole (The Montana Writers' Cookbook, 2005) 106
Food, Fitness, and Death (Brick, 2005) 107
The Fisherman Gourmand (Big Sky Cooking, 2006) 113
Food and Mood (Brick, 2006) 116
Vin Blanc (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2006) 122
Eternity and Food (Brick, 2006) 128
The Spirit of Wine (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2007) 135
Here I Stand for a Few Minutes (Brick, 2007) 141
One Good Thing Leads to Another (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2007) 147
Don't Go Out Over Your Head (Brick, 2007) 151
Rage and Appetite (Brick, 2008) 158
Close to the Bone (Martha Stewart Living, 2008) 166
Food, Finance, and Spirit (Brick, 2009) 169
The Body Is a Temple (Brick, 2009) 176
Food and Music (Brick, 2010) 183
The Arts Versus Food and Birds (Brick, 2010) 191
Wine and Poetry (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, 2010) 201
Caregiver (Brick, 2011) 207
Chef English Major (Playboy, June 2011) 216
The Logic of Birds and Fishes As It Relates to Shingles (Brick, 2011) 223
Pain (Brick, 2012) 229
Courage and Survival (Brick, 2013) 236
San Rafael (Brick, 2013) 243
Eat Where You Live (Edible Baja Arizona, 2014) 250
Gramps le Fou (Brick, 2014) 252
Truly Older (Brick, 2014) 262
Real Old Food (Brick, 2015) 267
Everyday Life: The Question of Zen (Brick, 2001) 272
Photo Credits 276