?[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson?? Ernest Hemingway?? Julian Schnabel?? and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.???Jane and Michael Stern?? New York Times Book Review on The Raw and the Cooked

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country??s most beloved writers?? a muscular?? brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around?? earning praise as ?the poet laureate of appetite?? (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch?? to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison??s death?? collects many of his food pieces for the first t