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The Reporter's Kitchen: Essays Kindle Edition

by Jane Kramer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 37
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Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon interview with an old Berber woman toiling over goat stew, or to the great London restaurateur and author Yotam Ottolenghi's Notting Hill apartment, where they assembled a buttered phylo-and-cheese tower called a mutabbaq, Jane always returned from the field with a new recipe, and usually, a friend.

For the first time, Jane's beloved food pieces from The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1964, are arranged in one place--a collection of definitive chef profiles, personal essays, and gastronomic history that is at once deeply personal and humane. The Reporter's Kitchen follows Jane everywhere, and throughout her career--from her summer writing retreat in Umbria, where Jane and her anthropologist husband host memorable expat Thanksgivings--in July--to the Nordic coast, where Jane and acclaimed Danish chef Rene Redzepi, of Noma, forage for edible sea-grass. The Reporter’s Kitchen is an important record of culture distilled through food around the world. It's welcoming and inevitably surprising.

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"[A] delectable collection of culinary profiles, book reviews and reminiscences...the offhand remarks about cult figures like Yotam Ottolenghi...move Kramer's writing from informative to irresistible." - Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review

"Eloquent and charmingly loquacious, Kramer's essays are sharp and insightful. A joyous feast of food, travel, and human relationships." - Kirkus Reviews

"Kramer’s portraits make both food and people equally central, and the reader comes away with a multidimensional portrait that neither excessively lauds talent nor judges her subjects’ personal shortcomings. Kramer writes winningly of her own food adventures. Undaunted by any culinary challenge, she went so far as to scrub her hallway floor to rollout pastry dough that her own tiny kitchen couldn’t possibly accommodate." - Booklist

"Each essay...feels as if you're having a good conversation with an old friend. While Kramer's writings will be enjoyed by many, they will especially appeal to devoted readers of The New Yorker and foodie fans, as her descriptions of feasts are quite mouthwatering." - Library Journal, starred review

"This assortment of Kramer's incisive, vivid New Yorker pieces is a veritable buffet." - Shelf Awareness

About the Author

JANE KRAMER is the longtime European correspondent of The New Yorker. She has also written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Vogue. She is the author of several books, including The Reporter's Kitchen, and has been the recipient of a National Book Award, a National Magazine Award, a Front Page Award, and an Emmy Award. In 2006, she was made a Chevalier de la Legions d’Honneur in France and, in 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She divides her time between Europe and New York.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071HD9F3Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (November 21, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 21, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1805 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 291 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1250074371
  • Customer Reviews:
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Patrizia Chen
5.0 out of 5 stars What a joy therefore to get my hands on The Reporter's Kitchen
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017
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I have followed Jane Kramer religiously on the New Yorker, for many years, and when I read her I take pleasure in her every comma, every period, every word and every adjective. I savor the way each phrase develops and turns around, the way she bends the language to her will.
What a joy therefore to get my hands on The Reporter's Kitchen. Her profiles of the most famous chefs (and often great writers as well) allow us, the readers, to truly get behind the scenes, our attention concentrated on the personality of each of these charismatic characters. Her love and deep knowledge of the culinary world, and especially her obvious passion for cooking, makes each chapter an insightful -- and often amusing -- encounter between a reporter and her chosen subject: food.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful book
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018
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I love the reporter's Kitchen ( essays by Jane Kramer). I found the book very well written, and really fascinating to read, and to delive into her various subjects for the many essays. Her book is a sheer delight, I love Jane Kramer's new book.
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Azaz
5.0 out of 5 stars Jane Kramer's writing is enchanting.
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019
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what a beautiful writer!
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Blanca
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018
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Got bored and stopped reading which I rarely do
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Elizabeth Woods
5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift!
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2018
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Gave as a gift which was received with pleasure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
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nice review of the cooking world
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Leigh
3.0 out of 5 stars Some lovely essays mixed in with confusing ones
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2017
I'm not sure I'd read any of Jane Kramer's articles before reading this book but I love food memoirs and I figured someone who writes for the New Yorker was worth gambling on. It was an uneven reading experience. I greatly enjoyed her chef profiles, particularly the one on Yotam Ottolenghi, and I loved her essay contrasting the lack of storage in her NYC kitchen and the roomy spaciousness of her kitchen in Italy. I haven't spent much time considering kitchen storage but the essay really resonated with me and made me think about the kitchen gadgets I rarely use but feel the need to hold on to. I wish all the essays had been so thoughtful but they often seemed crammed with esoteric recollections and copious name dropping and I wasn't always sure about Kramer's larger point or theme. I'm sure people who are familiar with Kramer's work will find much to admire, however.

Disclosure: I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A PURE PLEASURE TO READ
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
This is an extraordinary collection of essays. Kramer writes with an irresistible energy, humor and fierce wit. Her tales of travels and adventures, both in the kitchen and doing fieldwork everywhere from remote outposts in Morocco to Denmark, from Brazil to Washington State, are reason enough to buy this book. But the truest pleasure for me was in reading about the connection she finds between cooking and writing, how each infuse the other, pushing her to delve deeper, find structure to her articles, hone in on meaning… All this from a National Book Award-winning writer who’s one of the very, very best in the country. And then there’s her wonderful cast of characters – Ottolenghi, Bottura, Redzepi – and herself. Kramer is self-deprecating and hilarious, as she navigates the war between her domestic leanings and her feminist ferocity, tracing all the way back to her Rhode Island upbringing. As a great writer, this is all in subtext, a sort of intimacy that pulses under the wonderful stories she reports. Definitely a keeper.
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