Read an excerpt from plattypants's upcoming memoir, 'The Book of Eating'
Platt with his father near the old family house in Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1967. Photo: Courtesy of the author Excerpted from The Book of Eating, by Adam Platt, to be published on November 12 by HarperCollins Publishers. Copyright © 2019 by Adam Platt. All rights reserved.
The Platt family’s diet consisted of a kind of rotating cook’s tour through the countries in Asia where his work for the Foreign Service took us.
There was my father’s grandfather, a prosperous Manhattan architect named Charles A. Platt, who, back in the early 1900s, well before the scourge of vegetable snobbery swept the country almost a century later, had fresh earth shipped up from Connecticut for the garden at his summerhouse in New Hampshire. The elder Platt developed a rigorous system of composting that his descendants follow even today, and his devotion to fresh salad was so intense that his friend Stanford White Jr.
Often these discussions were moderated by my grandfather Geoffrey, who was arguably the Babe Ruth of this ancient, ancestral lineup of eaters, drinkers, and bons vivants. We called our grandfather “Grappa,” which also happened to be the name of his favorite Italian liqueur.
Long ago, it used to take the first Platts seven hours to travel up to their country house by train from Grand Central station — which is about how long it can take their modern ancestors to navigate the same trip through the weekend rush-hour traffic outside New York or Hartford or Boston with their cavalcades of children, guests, and dogs.
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