{"product_id":"the-upstairs-delicatessen-dwight-garner-9798212943468","title":"The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, and Eating While Reading","description":"\u003ci\u003eReading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies.\u003c\/i\u003e Dwight Garner, the beloved \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e critic and the author of \u003ci\u003eGarner's Quotations\u003c\/i\u003e, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading, eating, and every combination therein, \u003ci\u003eThe Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading\u003c\/i\u003e is a charming, emotional memoir that only Garner could write. In it, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast, lunch, shopping, the occasional nap, drinking, and dinner. Through his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates, and a portrait of Garner, eager and insatiable, emerges. He writes with tenderness and humor about his mayonnaise-laden childhood in West Virginia and Naples, Florida (and his father's famous peanut butter and pickle sandwich), his mind-opening marriage to a chef from a foodie family, and the words and dishes closest to his heart. This is a book to be savored, though it may just whet your appetite for more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dwight Garner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798212943468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tantor Audio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Dwight Garner","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48175641166079,"sku":"9798212943468","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03762673-839b-4454-90aa-e0346fc700a6.jpg?v=1771334987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-upstairs-delicatessen-dwight-garner-9798212943468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}