Eat, Live, Love, Die : Selected Essays

Thoughts on foodand lifefrom ';one of the culinary world's treasures' (TheWall Street Journal). Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. This is a woman who at eighty-two years old, and despite being half-blind, went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with her son, Sam. (She got her deer.) This is a woman who decided to teach herself Latin and German from scratch (on top of teaching herself how to cook) as a young twenty-one-year-old bride, because housewifery wasn't enough. Her essays on food, travel, and the arts are legendary, and she is a winner of the James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award. This wide-ranging anthology presents a collection of her writing, witty, personal, profound, and filled with ';a restless intelligence and energy' (The Washington Post). ';Very funny and inspiring. Some of the best essays here are the most recent, written in Fussell's dotage. Aging is a hot literary topic these days, but no one else I've read has captured the bizarre acceleration of time as we age quite the way Fussell does.' Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air ';Whether she's writing about food, her primary matter (though this covers everything from mayonnaise to Jell-O), her complex family life or culinary superstars like M.F.K. Fisher and Alice Waters (who provides the introduction here), Fussell is a gifted essayist and a meditative thinker, as enriching and relevant as she makes her subjects.' TheNew York Times Book Review