For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 33-41, (pp. 202-281). Chapter 33 starts: “Once upon a time in the dim dawn of oral history, there was no Williams-Sonoma international bazaar of kitchen and tableware in every mall, no De Gustibus famous...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 24-32, (pp. 138-201). Chapter 24 starts: “Press junkets and free meals were strictly forbidden to New York magazine citics and contributing editors. But there was not way I could refuse … " Gael Green's...