Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1640090118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. Counterpoint is thrilled to be publishing this selected anthology of her diverse essays.. She’s not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation’s Journalism Award who was inducted into their Who’s Who of American Food and Beverage” in 2009; and not just an extraordinary person whose fifty years’ worth of essays on food, travel, and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Saveur, and Vogue.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 (as described in her 2010 essay for the New York Ti
A Wonderful Book Written by an Original Writer Michelle J Betty Fussell is an outstanding writer on many subjects as you can see by reading this collection of essays she has written over 40 years. You learn something interesting, new, amazing, unusual with each chapter. She embraces each subject with enthusiasm, attention to detail, unusual facts. You can tell she really loves life, food, writing, researcing information, movies. She weaves all these interests into an amazing tapestry of enjoyment. READ IT!. A great read. Betty Fussell is an amazing person, her stories are full of wit and wisdom. Recommended.. charlene palmer said Three Stars. This was a gift
Some of the best essays here are the most recent, written in Fussell's dotage. "Award-winning writer Betty Fussell’s essay collection Eat, Live, Love, Die reveals a splendid mind, a masterful touch, and the high points of an honorable career. 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 Move over T. Now 89, Fussell came of age in the heyday of bright and breezy Bettys Betty Grable, Betty Hutton, Betty Crocker but she clearly gravitated toward the one dangerous dame of the bunch, Bette Davis. Eliot; her essay on aging is charged, spoken