A Small Starter: Questions of Food
PART I
Coming to the Table
1. Who Made the Restaurant?
2. What’s the Recipe?
3. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL:
Anchovies, Bacon, Lamb
PART II
Choosing at the Table
4. How Does Taste Happen?
5. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Lamb, Saffron, Cinnamon
6. Meat or Vegetables?
7. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Chicken, Pudding, Dogs
8. Near or Far?
9. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Salt, Pork, Mustard
PART III
Talking at the Table
10. In Vino Veritas?
11. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Potatoes, Steak, Air
12. What Do We Write About When We Write About Food?
13. What Do We Imagine When We Imagine Food?
14. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Rice, Milk, Sugar
PART IV
Leaving the Table
15. Paris at Last
16. E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL: Salmon, Broccoli, Repentance
17. Endings
18. LAST E-MAIL TO ELIZABETH PENNELL
Reading on the Way Home
Permissions and Credits
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY ADAM GOPNIK
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