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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
January 8, 2008
Pages
279
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400062331
ISBN-10
1400062330
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
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Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$26.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a poignant memoir of love, education, family, war, class, and loss, the copy chief of Gourmet magazine describes growing up in a working-class family in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s and family get-togethers during which they reminisced about the past and consumed large quantities of quintessential British food. 30,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this beautifully written, vividly rendered memoir, John Haney, Gourmet magazineâs copy chief, describes his familyâs day-to-day struggles, from the twilight of Queen Victoriaâs reign to the dawn of the third millennium, in Londonâs least affluent working-class enclaves and suburbs, including a place called the Isle of Dogsâand reflects on how his familyâs affection for the past and the food they loved brought them all together.
As a young John grows up in the fifties and sixties, the Haneys are a rough-and-tumble clan of bus drivers, telegraph operators, salesmen, junior civil servants, and secretaries. They work hard to put meals on the table and a shilling in the gas meter. When they gather at weddings and wakes and Christmas parties, they talk about politics and two world wars, drink cheap sherry, chain-smoke cigarettes, and eat platefuls of distinctly British fare: winkles, whelks, sausage rolls, marmalade sandwiches, and spotted dick.
Enchanted and, at the same time, slightly embarrassed by his Cockney pedigree, the young John Haney lives a life torn between his colorful East End relativesâwith their penchant for bangers, bacon sandwiches, and highly irreverent banterâand his lower-middle-class mother, who is preoccupied with her childrenâs education. Thanks to the generosity of his more moneyed neighbors, John is able to take trips to France and Italy, where, despite his continuing passion for baked beans on toast and toad-in-the-hole, he cultivates a taste for snails, Sancerre, stinky cheese, and minestra di pasta grattata.
Having survived grammar school, university, four years of part-time horsing around in the RAFâs equivalent of the JROTC, and a stint of semi-starvation in the music business, John is poised to break out of the working classâand ends up in Manhattan, where he promptly falls in love and decides to stay put.
But crossing the Atlanticâand with it the class barrierâleaves John with deep feelings of displacement and nostalgia. As he eats in some of New York Cityâs most expensive restaurants, he tries (and fails) to reconcile his new appetites with the indelible tastes of his youth. His sense of self becomes further conflicted when his father, a taciturn but loving man, dies and later when his ferociously proud mother, following the death of her second husband, must subsist on a minuscule pension. Suddenly John is forced to reconsider his defection and to grapple with memories, fleeting but formidable, of the long-ago life that has continued to, and always will, define him.
Peopled with unforgettable characters who find in even the greasiest kitchens the sustenance to see them through lifeâs hardships, Fair Shares for All is a remarkable memoir of resolve and resilience, food and family.
As a young John grows up in the fifties and sixties, the Haneys are a rough-and-tumble clan of bus drivers, telegraph operators, salesmen, junior civil servants, and secretaries. They work hard to put meals on the table and a shilling in the gas meter. When they gather at weddings and wakes and Christmas parties, they talk about politics and two world wars, drink cheap sherry, chain-smoke cigarettes, and eat platefuls of distinctly British fare: winkles, whelks, sausage rolls, marmalade sandwiches, and spotted dick.
Enchanted and, at the same time, slightly embarrassed by his Cockney pedigree, the young John Haney lives a life torn between his colorful East End relativesâwith their penchant for bangers, bacon sandwiches, and highly irreverent banterâand his lower-middle-class mother, who is preoccupied with her childrenâs education. Thanks to the generosity of his more moneyed neighbors, John is able to take trips to France and Italy, where, despite his continuing passion for baked beans on toast and toad-in-the-hole, he cultivates a taste for snails, Sancerre, stinky cheese, and minestra di pasta grattata.
Having survived grammar school, university, four years of part-time horsing around in the RAFâs equivalent of the JROTC, and a stint of semi-starvation in the music business, John is poised to break out of the working classâand ends up in Manhattan, where he promptly falls in love and decides to stay put.
But crossing the Atlanticâand with it the class barrierâleaves John with deep feelings of displacement and nostalgia. As he eats in some of New York Cityâs most expensive restaurants, he tries (and fails) to reconcile his new appetites with the indelible tastes of his youth. His sense of self becomes further conflicted when his father, a taciturn but loving man, dies and later when his ferociously proud mother, following the death of her second husband, must subsist on a minuscule pension. Suddenly John is forced to reconsider his defection and to grapple with memories, fleeting but formidable, of the long-ago life that has continued to, and always will, define him.
Peopled with unforgettable characters who find in even the greasiest kitchens the sustenance to see them through lifeâs hardships, Fair Shares for All is a remarkable memoir of resolve and resilience, food and family.
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Hardcover
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1 edition from Random House Inc (January 8, 2008)
9781400062331 | details & prices | 279 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $26.00
About: The copy chief of 'Gourmet' magazine describes growing up in a working-class family in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s and family get-togethers during which they reminisced about the past and consumed quintessential British food.
About: The copy chief of 'Gourmet' magazine describes growing up in a working-class family in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s and family get-togethers during which they reminisced about the past and consumed quintessential British food.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Random House Inc (March 10, 2009)
9780812979862 | details & prices | 275 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $15.00
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