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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard

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A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing)


The definitive biography of America's best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.

In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmet's complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminat...