The Table Comes First

'Like the Argentinian [Lionel Messi], Gopnik is always worth watching' Telegraph.

'He may be the best food writer there is. He's certainly the most thoughtful - the most philosophical' Evening Standard.

'Extraordinary' GQ.

'Brilliant ... flamboyant and greedy' Independent.

'Gopnik, a brilliant writer on the New Yorker, makes a passionate case for the centrality of the table to our lives, and the binding force of sitting down to the 'nightly miracle' of dinner' Sunday Times.

'Gopnik writes beautifully ... this is a lovely history of the way we think about all sorts of things' William Leith.

'His writing here is a high-glazed wonder' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian.

'These are personal essays in the fullest sense of the word, sieving the big subjects of the book's subtitle - family, France, food - through one man's well-furnished mind' Guardian.

'He may be the best food writer there is. He's certainly the most thoughtful - the most philosophical' Evening Standard.