Jay Rayners Last Supper

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 1783352280
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jay Rayner's Last Supper written by Jay Rayner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a man more obsessed with his lunch than is strictly necessary, the idea of a showpiece last supper is a tantalising prospect. But wouldn't knowledge of your imminent demise ruin your appetite? So, Jay decided to cheat death. The plan was simple: he would embark on a journey through his life in food in pursuit of the meal to end all meals. It's a quest that takes him from necking oysters on the Louisiana shoreline to forking away the finest French pastries in Tokyo, and from his earliest memories of snails in garlic butter, through multiple pig-based banquets, to the unforgettable final meal itself. My Last Supper is both a hugely entertaining account of a life built around mealtimes and a fascinating global exploration of our relationship with what we eat. It is the story of one hungry man, in eight courses.

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783352210
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jay Rayner's Last Supper written by Jay Rayner and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a man more obsessed with his lunch than is strictly necessary, the idea of a showpiece last supper is a tantalizing prospect. But wouldn't knowledge of your imminent demise ruin your appetite? So, Jay decided to cheat death. The plan was simple: he would embark on a journey through his life in food in pursuit of the meal to end all meals. It's a quest that takes him from necking oysters on the Louisiana shoreline to forking away the finest French pastries in Tokyo, and from his earliest memories of snails in garlic butter, through multiple pig-based banquets, to the unforgettable final meal itself. Jay Rayner's Last Supper is both a hugely entertaining account of a life built around mealtimes and a fascinating global exploration of our relationship with what we eat. It is the story of one hungry man, in eight courses.

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241976707
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ten (Food) Commandments written by Jay Rayner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food. And Lord knows we need it. Enter our new culinary Moses, the legendary restaurant critic Jay Rayner, with a new set of hand-tooled commandments for this food-obsessed age. He deals once and for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour's oxen (it is), eating with your hands (very important indeed) and if you should cut off the fat (no). Combining reportage and anecdotes with recipes worthy of adoration, Jay Rayner brings us the new foodie rules to live by.

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 178335240X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chewing the Fat written by Jay Rayner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the devil's work? In this rollicking collection of his hilarious columns, the award-winning writer and Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner answers these vital questions and many, many more. They are glorious dispatches, seasoned in equal measure with both enthusiasm and bile, from decades at the very frontline of eating

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429950846
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Ate the World written by Jay Rayner and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astronomical gastronomical undertaking —one of the world's preeminent restaurant critics takes on the giants of haute cuisine, one tasting menu at a time Like the luxury fashion companies Gucci and Chanel, high-end dining has gone global, and Jay Rayner has watched, amazed, as the great names of the restaurant business have turned themselves from artisans into international brands. Long suspecting that his job was too good to be true, Rayner uses his entrée into this world to probe the larger issues behind the globalization of dinner. Combining memoir with vivid scenes at the table; interviews with the world's most renowned chefs, restaurateurs, and eaters; and a few well-placed rants and raves about life as a paid gourmand, Rayner puts his thoughtful, innovative, and hilarious stamp on food writing. He reports on high-end gastronomy from Vegas to Dubai, Moscow to Tokyo, London to New York, ending in Paris where he attempts to do with Michelin-starred restaurants what Morgan Spurlock did with McDonald's in Super Size Me—eating at those establishments on consecutive days and never refusing a sixteen-course tasting menu when it's offered. The Man Who Ate the World is a fascinating and riotous look at the business and pleasure of fine dining.

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 1783351772
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights written by Jay Rayner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Le Cinq, Beast and Farm Girl Café, and a new introduction by the author. Jay Rayner isn't just a trifle irritated. He is eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly, teeth-grindingly angry. And admit it, that's why you picked up this book, isn't it? Because you aren't really interested in glorious prose poems celebrating the finest dining experiences known to humanity, are you? You want him to suffer abysmal cooking, preferably at eye-watering prices, so you can gorge on the details and luxuriate in vicarious displeasure. You're in luck. Revel in Jay's misfortune as he is subjected to dreadful meat cookery with animals that died in vain, gravies full of casual violence and service that redefines the word 'incompetent'. He hopes you enjoy reading his reviews of these twenty miserable meals a damn sight more than he didn't enjoy experiencing them.

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241963206
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dining Hell written by Jay Rayner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush. They claim otherwise, of course. Readers like to present themselves as private arbiters of taste; as people interested in the good stuff. I'm sure they are. I'm sure they really do care whether the steak was served au point as requested or whether the soufflé had achieved a certain ineffable lightness. And yet, when I compare dinner to bodily fluids, the room to an S & M chamber in Neasden (only without the glamour or class), and the bill to an act of grand larceny, why, then the baying crowd is truly happy. Don't believe me? Then why, presented with the chance to buy this ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff - getting a complete stiffing courtesy of the sort of vitriolic bloody-curdling review which would make the victims call for their mummies, did you seize it with both hands?

Author : Jay Rayner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591303
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eating Crow written by Jay Rayner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Basset has a well-deserved reputation as a pitiless restaurant critic. When he writes a devastating review of a celebrated restaurant, the chef commits suicide, roasting himself in his own fan-assisted oven, with Basset's review pasted to the door. Suddenly Basset is moved to do something he has never done before: apologize. Startled by the widow's forgiveness and absolution, he feels unexpectedly euphoric. In an effort to maintain this newfound state of bliss, he decides to gorge himself on contrition by apologizing to every person he has ever done wrong. And that's just the beginning. After a series of virtuoso expressions of regret, word of Basset's mollifying power spreads, and he is tapped to become Chief Apologist for the United Nations. His job is to travel the globe in his own Gulfstream V private jet, apologizing for everything from colonialism through exploitation to slavery. It is a role that brings him fame, wealth, and access to a lot of very good chocolate. But in a world overdosing on emotion, does Marc Basset really have the stomach to become the sorriest man in history? Built of delicate layers of heinous crime, forgiveness, and outrageous gastronomy, Jay Rayner's hilarious new novel is an arch comedy of modern appetite and etiquette.

Author : Annie Gray
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473532876
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kitchen Cabinet written by Annie Gray and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *INCLUDED THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES' BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOKS OF 2021* Fill your year with flavour. The official The Kitchen Cabinet compendium is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life of our kitchens to aid you in yours. Open up to find food tips and tricks, stories, recipes, anecdotes and seasonal fun, all held together with our trademark titbits of history, science and often rather lively debate. Join us as we travel across the country, ready to respond to all your culinary conundrums - as well as sharing lots of things you never even thought to ask.

Author : Pen Vogler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786496492
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoff written by Pen Vogler and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: