An essay collection from "the Henry Miller of food writing" and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked ( The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch "brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented by family photographs" (NPR). From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's aperçus and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the last three decades. Including articles that first appeared in Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and more, as well as an introduction by Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch offers "sage and succulent essays" for the literary gourmand ( Shelf Awareness, starred review).

ジム・ハリソンは生命の野性味を、胃袋というフィルターを通して文学へと昇華させた「食の詩人」です。本作は、三十七皿もの伝説的なランチやワインへの渇望を、荒々しくも繊細な筆致で刻んでいます。読者は彼の奔放な言葉を通じ、食べるという行為が死生観と密接に結びついた、剥き出しの神聖な儀式であることを思い知らされるでしょう。 映像化作品では、彼の豪胆な食卓が視覚的に補完され、その圧倒的な熱量を直感的に享受できます。しかし、書籍の真髄は行間に潜む孤独や老いへの深い洞察にあります。文字だからこそ伝わる五感を揺さぶる比喩は、映像の華やかさを超え、読者の魂に重層的な人生の教訓を刻み込みます。両者に触れることで、彼が遺した「生」の馳走は真に完成するのです。