'The Upstairs Delicatessen' tells of Dwight Garner's lifelong love of reading and eating
If ever a book was meant to be savored, it’s Dwight Garner’s new memoir
“The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading about Eating, and Eating While
Reading.”
In it, the New York Times literary critic takes readers on a journey through his food and book-obsessed childhood, infusing it along the way with the words of the great writers who have moved him from his childhood in West Virginia and Naples — where he ate his father’s legendary peanut butter and pickle sandwiches — to his marriage to chef who grew up bringing leftover frog legs to school in her lunch box.
Garner joins host Robin Young to talk about his new book and his lifelong passion for reading and eating.
Book excerpt: ‘The Upstairs Delicatessen’
By Dwight Garner
When I was young, growing up in West Virginia and then in southwest Florida, I was a soft kid, inclined toward embonpoint, “husky”.
