Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking

From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion.

Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le Pavillion to La Grenouille, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical, from the rare game birds she served at elaborate dinner parties in an apartment so tiny that guests couldn't turn ar...