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"A New Foodie&amp;#39;s Bible\n\nDavid Kamp is not a food writer, but he is one of the most brilliant journalists I know. That gives him a pretty significant edge over food writers. Let&amp;#39;s face it: Eating is one of the few human activities that takes no intelligence whatsoever. So it&amp;#39;s nice when a superior mind takes on the subject of food.\n\nKamp has written a comprehensive and dazzling book about the history of food in America. It&amp;#39;s titled The United States of Arugula, and it traces our evolution as eaters. He documents how we moved from being &amp;quot;Jell-O-abusing women&amp;#39;s-page ladies&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;terrapin-eating boulevardiers&amp;quot; to a &amp;quot;gourmet nation.&amp;quot;\n\nThe book is full of encyclopedia-quality tidbits, both in the text and in his particularly entertaining footnotes. However, the primary virtue of the book is Kamp&amp;#39;s insightful sketches of everyone in the food world you have ever admired and quite a few that you probably forgot you knew. If he&amp;#39;s missed anybody, it&amp;#39;s the guy running a bodega at the end of your block.\n\nThere&amp;#39;s a bonus, too. Should you ever have wondered about the sensual sides of Julia Child, Alice Waters, or Barbara Lazaroff (ex-wife of Wolfgang Puck), considerable information is provided. To tell you the truth, I had always thought Julia never did anything more provocative than dropping a chicken on the floor of her kitchen (and she might never even have done that).\n\nThe United States of Arugula comes out this week. You will never be able to make up for all the wonderful meals you&amp;#39;ve missed over the years, but now you can find out how good they all would have been."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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