Villas at Table: A Passion for Food and Drink

by James Villas

Representing the cream of James Villas' writing about food and drink, including his first piece for "Town & Country", this book is filled with recipes, literate explications of the origins of ingredients and dishes, trenchant critiques of restaurants, and exhortations to excellence.

Genres: Cookbooks

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

James Villas was the food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine for twenty-seven years. His work has also appeared in Esquire, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Saveur, The New York Times, and the Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Two of his cookbooks have been nominated for a James Beard Award. He has also won a James Beard Award twice for journalism and received Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award in 2003. James Villas is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks and books on food, including My Mother’s Southern Kitchen and The Glory of Southern Cooking. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

Reviews

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Maybe it's past it's time, but I had no interest in this book of food and memoirs. Often known as gastronomy's Sheridan Whiteside--the man who comes to dinner then nibbles the hand that feeds him.