Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet

For Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, Ruth Reichl (Comfort Me with Apples) serves a banquet of portraits and reminiscences, from eminent writers such as Anita Loos, James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Madhur Jaffrey and Laurie Colwin. William Hamilton's childhood encounter with betrayal, in which jellied consomm is promised as a reward to the unsuspecting, and Paul Theroux's blissful journey from Denver to San Francisco by luxury railcar will entertain and refresh. ( Apr.)