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Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"From the author of Paris to the Moon--one man's quest for the meaning of food in a time obsessed with what to eat. Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, even our moralizing--'You still eat meat?' How could the land of Chef Boyardee have come so far overnight? And where can we possibly go from here? Locating our table ancestry in France, Adam Gopnik traces our rapid evolution from commendable...
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The children's gate is an entrance to Central Park that leads to the playground. Gopnik explores that entrance in metaphor and experience as he recounts his family's return from Paris to New York-- a seemingly secure, almost oddly child-friendly New York-- in the fall of 2000. Gopnik describes not a city but an extended urban family, and a home charmed by the civilization of childhood.
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