The array of vacation reading on the coffee table made me chuckle this morning. Next to Caroline Knapp's
Drinking: A Love Story is Jason Epstein's book
Eating: A Memoir. That about sums up the week. My husband brought both titles along, as I read them long ago. In fact, Epstein signed the copy for me when I interviewed him in his SoHo apartment's kitchen in January of 2010 as part of the research for my book on Jacqueline Onassis.
In 1975, Jackie asked Epstein, then editorial director at Random House, to lunch at Lutece; they ordered shad roe (the recipe for which is included in
Eating).
"She asked if there was a job for her at Random House," Epstein recalled. "She wanted to be an editor."
I'll save the rest of the story for my book, but tonight I should try the bouillabaisse recipe that Epstein also includes, inspired by the Alice Waters cookbooks Epstein published.
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