Giving Good Weight
You people come into the market-the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun-and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are-people of the city-and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales. So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including Brigade de Cuisine, a profile of an artistic and extraordina…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-16306-8
- EAN: 9780374163068
- Produktnummer: 35440317
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1979
- Seitenangabe: 261 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.6 cm 463 g
- Gewicht: 463
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