| Gopnik on Food in Loft Dec 6 |
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On Tuesday, December 6, at 7pm, The Music Hall’s Writers in the Loft series will welcome the award-winning New Yorker magazine writer Adam Gopnik. The author of Paris to the Moon will join the series with his new nonfiction work, THE TABLE COMES FIRST: Family, France and the Meaning of Food. His appearance will take place at the Music Hall Loft at
“Coming in the season of family feasts and celebrations, both dining in and dining out, Gopnik’s timing with this book is perfect. Why is food, why is eating such a fascination…and such fun? Gopnik digs right into it and tells all—I can’t wait to hear more from him,” says Patricia Lynch, Executive Producer of The Music Hall’s Writers series.
About the book, THE TABLE COMES FIRST
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing. (“You still eat meat?”) With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives?
With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts
Throughout, he reminds us of a time-honored truth often lost amid our newfound gastronomic pieties and certitudes: What goes on the table has never mattered as much to our lives as what goes on around the table—the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart; conversation across the simplest or grandest board. This, ultimately, is who we are.
Following in the footsteps of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Adam Gopnik gently satirizes the entire human comedy of the comestible as he surveys the wide world of taste that we have lately made our home. The Table Comes First is the delightful beginning of a new conversation about the way we eat now.
About the author, Adam Gopnik
Author of the beloved best seller Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Reviews and Criticism and of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.
About the Writers in the Loft
Writers in the Loft is akin to The Music Hall’s anchor author series, Writers on a New England Stage, featuring well-known authors but in a smaller, more intimate space. It is produced as a partnership between The Music Hall and RiverRun Bookstore with Series Sponsor Citizens Bank. The series brings audiences today’s top authors, and the best of fiction and nonfiction. Previous writers in the series include Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Egan, Stephen Greenblatt, and Chris Bohjalian. Next up in the series, on January 17, 2012, is Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with his new work, Life Upon These Shores.
Writers in the Loft Package Purchase
Tickets to Writers in the Loft; Adam Gopnik are $37 for members of The Music Hall ($40 for general public). Included in the package are a reserved seat, a copy of THE TABLE COMES FIRST ($25.95, hardcover), bar beverage; and author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet. Tickets are available through The Music Hall Box Office, located at