TY - BOOK AU - Sokolov,Raymond A. TI - Steal the menu: a memoir of forty years in food SN - 0307700941 (hardcover) AV - TX649.S57 S65 2013 U1 - 641.5092 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Sokolov, Raymond A. KW - Cooks KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Food writing KW - Cooking, American N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Amuse bouche -- First bites -- The ungastronomical me -- Food news -- Upstairs in front -- With reservations N2 - "When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces the food scene he reported on in America and abroad, from his pathbreaking dispatches on nouvelle cuisine chefs like Paul Bocuse and Michel Guérard in France to the rise of contemporary American food stars like Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz, and the fruitful collision of science and cooking in the kitchens of El Bulli in Spain, the Fat Duck outside London, and Copenhagen's gnarly Noma"--Dust jacket flap ER -