, a Francophile New Yorker writer whose life and work helped to inspire Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch , reported on many subjects, including boxing, horse racing and the Second World War, but his greatest passion was for good food: eating it, that is, rather than cooking it. He was a dedicated, unrepentant hog. In this wonderfully readable short book, usefully reissued by Penguin, he describes memorable meals in Paris, mainly from 1927, the year he spent there as a student, funded by his indulgent father, but also from stays before and after the war. Massive consumption is both his aim and admiration. He remembers the){kind=link}
Between Meals, published in 1962, is “the benchmark for great food writing,” Anthony Bourdain said. AJ Liebling (1904-63), a Francophile New Yorker writer whose life and work helped to inspire Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, reported on many subjects, including boxing, horse racing and the Second World War, but his greatest passion was for good food: eating it, that is, rather than cooking it. He was a dedicated, unrepentant hog.
In this wonderfully readable short book, usefully reissued by Penguin, he describes memorable meals in Paris, mainly from 1927, the year he spent there as a student, funded by his indulgent father, but also from stays before and after the war.
Massive consumption is both his aim and admiration. He remembers the
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