Dots & Dashes by Jehanne Dubrow5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() While other food-memory books sometimes threaten an overindulgence of richness, in Taste, Dubrow's sharp wit and self-awareness serve as the perfect digestivo. Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers Jehanne Dubrow is an intellectual sensualist, a writer of sometimes lyrical, sometimes directly colloquial, and always critical sensibility, her mnemonic taste buds open to memory's compromised dishes, its condiments and aftertaste. She writes: 'We acquire tastes just as we acquire knowledge: with time and patience, a belief that the pursuit can lead to something delicious'-and something delicious describes this trove of riches perfectly. Chris Manno * Lone Star Literary Life * If 'tasting may begin with sight' (and what a synaesthetic provocation that is!) Dubrow goes on to show this strangely elusive sense manifesting in every form of perception-mind, body, and soul. * Publishers Weekly * Captivating, engrossing, and thought-provoking essays. Dubrow's musings are at once sober and evocative, and she succeeds admirably in getting "around the ungainliness of words by finding metaphors for taste." These thoughtful meditations offer lots to savor. ![]() ![]() Poet Dubrow (Wild Kingdom) considers the five basic tastes-sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami-in this amusing collection of essays. ![]()
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