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Thomas McNamee

Biography

Thomas McNamee

Thomas McNamee

Books by Thomas McNamee

by Thomas McNamee - Biography, Food, History, Nonfiction

Based on unprecedented access to Claiborne’s personal papers and interviews with a host of food world royalty, including Jacques Pepin, Gael Greene, and Alice Waters, Tom McNamee offers an account of Craig Claiborne’s extraordinary adventure in food, from his own awakening in the bistros of Paris, to his legendary wine-soaked dinner parties, to his travels to colorful locals from Morocco to Saigon, and the infamous $4,000 dinner he shared in Paris with French chef Pierre Franey that made front-page news.