The Unprejudiced Palate
Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life
An Italian immigrant's 1948 argument that growing, cooking and eating your own food is not a chore but the point.
An Italian immigrant to Oregon writes about food, wine and the good life as one subject. Pellegrini taught English at the University of Washington and argued, in 1948, that Americans should grow, cook and drink with attention rather than anxiety, decades before that became a genre. Reissued with an introduction by Mario Batali.
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Ruth Reichl
Pellegrini is, in many ways, my hero. He’s such an advocate for paying attention to life. There is a point where he says what a lost opportunity it is if you bring someone in to do your cooking or your gardening. There’s real joy to be found in doing these things for yourself.
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