Janni Kalafatis Kalafatis itibaren Gari, Macedonia (BJRM) itibaren Gari, Macedonia (BJRM)

James Beard's grandiose style in the kitchen is somewhat tempered in these intimate letters he wrote to his good friend Helen Evans Brown. It's full of the voluptuous lust for life that Beard was renowned for, and surprisingly, a certain candid loneliness that culinary stardom brought Beard. And it goes without saying that reading a few pages will make your stomach grumble.