Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess

A memoir based on the author's life-long love affair with food, men, and wine traces her experimentation with the sensual nature of both food and sex before and throughout the course of her career as a restaurant critic for New York magazine, during which she met such culinary giants as Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, in an account complemented by some of the author's favorite recipes. 75,000 first printing.