Fried Butter: A Food Memoir

From Strand Bookstore

Essays on foods & the recollections summoned up by food by the writer who has lived in California, Kyoto, Jerusalem, Tijuana, Istanbul & Paris.

From the Publisher

The memoirs of a writer for The San Diego Reader associate people and major events of his life with food, in a personal story that recounts his travels through many parts of the world.

Review

Rand Richards Cooper - New York Times Book Review
"Some of Opincar's bites-of-passage vignettes are ruefully funny....More often, though, a wistful gloom prevails."

More about the book

Abe Opincar sees his life in terms of the food he has eaten, and he also draws on the food memories of friends in this unusual memoir.