{"product_id":"comfort-me-with-apples-isbn-9780771031243","title":"Comfort Me with Apples","description":"A literary syncopation on the theme of food, \u003ci\u003eComfort Me With Apples\u003c\/i\u003e earned Joe Fiorito rave reviews and enthusiastic fans when it was first published in 1994. One writer declared it was “a small miracle of prose.” A rich buffet of diverse short essays, \u003ci\u003eComfort Me With Apples\u003c\/i\u003e is about the appetites of the soul as well as the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiorito’s range is wide: from the ingredients for the best chili dog in the world to the recipe for chicken soup for the courting soul; from the sharp portrait of a young boy’s real hunger to the olfactory pleasures of a proper barbecue. His guests include an Inuk whom he takes to a sushi bar, an old man in pajamas, Julia Child, several daddies, a woman with a seductive appetite, and Hercules. You are invited to join them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB.Y.O.B.“How does Joe Fiorito do it? The mixture of toughness, elegance and lethal wit. The street-smart, bruising tenderness packed into language sharper than flint.”\u003cbr\u003e–Mark Abley, author of\u003ci\u003e The Ice Storm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fiorito is that wonder of wonders, a deeply curious and perceptive reporter who is also a fine and imaginative writer.”\u003cbr\u003e–Montreal \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s a wise-cracking tenderness to his writing that makes him come across as a sort of Damon Runyon of the north.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eCanadian Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Fiorito \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eComfort Me With Apples\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1994, and \u003ci\u003eTango on the Main\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), a selection of his city columns from the Montreal \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e. His family memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Closer We Are to Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1999, was a national best-seller and earned the author further critical acclaim. Guy Vanderhaeghe called it “a remarkable memoir, perhaps the finest by a Canadian writer since John Glassco’s \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Montparnasse\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1970.” Fiorito lives in Toronto and writes for the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303781880037,"sku":"NP9780771031243","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771031243.jpg?v=1767723957","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/comfort-me-with-apples-isbn-9780771031243","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}