On Learning to Eat excerpted from Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (C 1959,1986 by A.J. Liebling. Published by North Point Press and Reprinted by permission)

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 8, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol. They are indispensable, like a prizefighter's hours on the road. (I have read that the late French professional gourmand Maurice Curnonsky ate but one meal a day-dinner. But that was late in his life, and I have always suspected his attainments anyway; so many ...

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