Between Meals by A.J. Liebling related-between-meals-by-a-j-liebling The Culinary Arts Institute in

The Culinary Arts Institute in Chicago produced these—the women who edited them had names like Edna and Ethel and Phyllis and Louise

not the grotesque details

it's my mother's

Many of these recipes require having two obedient children who'll willingly labor over ridiculous tasks like molding fresh goat cheese using cheesecloth to achieve "a beautiful imprint" or hollowing out cherry tomatoes and then artfully filling them with haricots verts

I know a guy

Between Meals by A.J. Liebling related-between-meals-by-a-j-liebling The Culinary Arts Institute inThis book is one of my father's favorites. It's about a man's man who loves sport and women and food and drink and Paris. These are all thing my father loves, as well. I imagine that he and Liebling would have gotten along if they found themselves sitting next to one another at dinner on an ocean liner from New York to Southampton, eating and smoking and recounting boxing matches, then making plans to gad about the arrondissements once they arrived