First edition. An exceptional copy. 2014 Hard Cover. My Usual Tableis a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eatfrom Trader Vics to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulliand a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor ofSaveurand James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews. For reviewer, writer, and editor Colman Andrews, restaurants have been his playground, his theater, his university, his church, his refuge. The establishments he has loved have not only influenced culinary trends at home and abroad, but represent the changing history and culture of food in America and Western Europe. From his usual table, he has watched the growth of Nouvelle Cuisine and fusion cuisine; the organic and locavore movements; nose-to-tail eating; and so-called molecular gastronomy.