Friday Food Writers: Anthony Doerr
Four Seasons in Rome is novelist Anthony Doerr’s account of the year he spent in Rome (on a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy–jealous, anyone?) with his wife and twin baby boys, trying to write a book, trying to learn Italian, and often, trying to figure out how to get food for his growing [...]
Friday Food Writers: Elizabeth David
British cookbook author Elizabeth David, who died in 1922, is widely credited not only with a beautiful prose style (even her recipes read like little essays rather than lists) but also with introducing Italian and French food to England–where many of the ingredients they called for, like eggplant and even pasta were hard to find–after [...]
