Eat this hook

摘要

"IDON'T understand how a young cou-pie can begin life by buying a sofa or a television," Fergus Henderson, a fashionable London chef, once told the author. "Don't they know the table comes first?" Adam Gopnik borrows the phrase as the title of his new book, an expanded collection of his food writing for the New Yorker over the past 25 years. Our lives these days are best measured in meals, he argues, eaten in or out: "we are courted, spurned, recruited, hired, fired, lured to a new job, or released from an old one" over the lunch or dinner table.