The Table Comes First

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF AND ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA

Copyright © 2011 by Adam Gopnik

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Portions of this work were previously published in different form in The New Yorker. Permission to reprint previously published material can be found following the acknowledgments.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gopnik, Adam

The table comes first : family, France, and the meaning of food / Adam Gopnik.–1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-70059-9

1. Food–Social aspects. 2. Dinners and dining. 3. Food habits–France. I. Title.

GT2850.G67 2011

394.1′20944–dc23 2011013564

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Gopnik, Adam

The table comes first : family, France and the meaning of food / Adam Gopnik.

1. Gopnik, Adam. 2. Food. 3. Food habits. 4. Food—Social aspects. 5. Food habits—Social aspects. I. Title.

GT2850.G67 2012 394.1′2 C2011-902638-4

Jacket photograph by Richard Kalvar/Magnum Photos

Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde

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