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Jane Kramer
Also known as: JANE KRAMER, Jane kramer
American journalist who is the European correspondent for The New Yorker; she has written a regular "Letter from Europe" for twenty years. Kramer has also written nine books, the latest of which, Lone Patriot (2003), is about a militia in the American West. Her other books include The Last Cowboy, Europeans and The Politics of Memory.
Most acclaimed
Lone patriot
2002
"In Lone Patriot, Kramer, who covers Europe for The New Yorker, now turns to America with a portrait of the commander-in-chief of an erstwhile Patriot army called the Washington State Militia." "In 1996 Kramer made the first of what would be many trips to Whatcom County, Washington, to talk to John Pitner and some of the veterans of Alpha One, his "leadership" squad. Through their voices, Pitner's in particular, Kramer tells the story of a movement that surfaced in America in the nineties, as the millennium approached, and has continued - its resolve, if anything, strengthened by the events of the past year - into the new century. Her powerful evocations of Whatcom County could easily describe any number of rural communities in the Pacific Northwest today - a place of refuge to a strange assortment of conspiracy theorists, armed "constitutionalists," white supremacists, county secessionists, Freemen, and Christian fanatics, and to the kind of groups that survive on their discontent."--BOOK JACKET.
The reporter's kitchen
"Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon interview with an old Berber woman toiling over goat stew, or to the great London restaurateur and author Yotam Ottolenghi's Notting Hill apartment, where they assembled a buttered phylo-and-cheese tower called a mutabbaq, Jane always returned from the field with a new recipe, and usually, a friend. For the first time, Jane's beloved food pieces from The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1964, are arranged in one place--a collection of definitive chef profiles, personal essays, and gastronomic history that is at once deeply personal and humane. The Reporter's Kitchen follows Jane everywhere, and throughout her career--from her summer writing retreat in Umbria, where Jane and her anthropologist husband host memorable expat Thanksgivings--in July--to the Nordic coast, where Jane and acclaimed Danish chef Rene Redzepi, of Noma, forage for edible sea-grass. The Reporter's Kitchen is an important record of culture distilled through food around the world. It's welcoming and inevitably surprising"--