No One can be Hungry Forever with Jeff Gordinier

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During the past decade Jeff Gordinier has covered the world of food — as a reporter for The New York Times from 2011 to 2016, and as the food & drinks editor of Esquire magazine from 2016 until 2021. Over the years he has also covered movies, music, poetry, and politics — and has contributed to publications such as Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Outside, Elle, Fast Company, Details, Travel + Leisure, Departures, Breathe, Real Simple, Air Mail, the Los Angeles Times, and the website of the Poetry Foundation. Jeff is the author, most recently, of the 2019 book Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World, a portrait of chef René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen. He has appeared in the Jeong Kwan episode of the Netflix series Chef’s Table — an episode that won a James Beard Foundation award in 2018 — and in Phil Rosenthal's Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil. Jeff has taught food writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, has curated culinary and literary events for the Kaatsbaan cultural center in New York's Hudson Valley, has published (with co-editor Marc Weingarten) a collection of essays about women in music (2015's Here She Comes Now), and is currently developing projects for television. He lives close to the Hudson River with his wife, Lauren Fonda, and his four children. 1. Cooking, music and Spotify playlists 2. Reading on phones vs real books, is tech creating addicts? 3. Writer's block, creative processes and connection 4. Sober curious 5. Noma's non-alcoholic drinks 6. Recommendations from an Esquire Magazine critic 7. Roma is closing! 8. Seemingly impossible pop-up in Mexico 9. Quit while you're ahead 10. Anxiety with travel for a travel writer! 11. No one is hungry forever 12. Co-creator of Billions and Ocean's 13, Brian Koppelman, book clubs, and trying to read the classics! Catch is hot list below. Jeff's list of books for you! fiction: Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon Suzanne & Gertrude by Jeb Loy Nichols Less by Andrew Sean Greer Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez True Grit by Charles Portis Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte nonfiction: Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux Stay True by Hua Hsu How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith poetry: Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros Skeletons by Deborah Landau Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio Song of Songs by Sylvie Baumgartel The Dream of Reason by Jenny George Beyond Belief by John Koethe

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