About the Author

Jesse Browner is an author, food writer and award-winning translator. He has written four previous books including the novels Conglomeros (Random House 1992), Turnaway (Random House 1996) and The Uncertain Hour (Bloomsbury 2007), and has translated works by Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard and Rainer Maria Rilke. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, Food & Wine and Gastronomica, among others. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.