What They’re Saying
“I think Caroline Grant and Lisa Harper are on to something with this collection, something left out of polemics about how to eat and the faddish coverage of food in much of the media: that everyone’s understanding of food and flavor and of how to feed themselves is a deeply personal set of preferences and prejudices, forged over years and tempered by the parts of our lives spent away from the table as much as those at it. LEARNING TO EAT brings together a talented and diverse group of writers, and through their appealingly wide-ranging essays, each shares stories – emotional, funny, revealing – about their relationship to food and the way food shapes their relationship to the world. These stories aren’t just about what we eat, but also about how those choices help us understand who we are.”
Peter Meehan, contributor, The New York Times
“I loved the appetizers I got to read. I can’t wait for the entire meal. This is going to be an entertaining, thought-provoking book.”
A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically
(Simon and Schuster, 2007)
“LEARNING TO EAT takes dining away from the celebrity aesthete goodies currently infesting America’s restaurants and returns it to the family table where it can be celebrated for its delightfully neurotic origins and near-obsessive manifestations.”
Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box (Collins, 2007)
“The little taste [the editors have] given me here definitely makes me hungry for more.”
Betsy Block, The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World
(Algonquin Books, 2008)