{"id":98,"date":"2011-07-11T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-07-15T01:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T01:00:22","slug":"george_lang_knew_the_answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2011\/07\/george_lang_knew_the_answer.html","title":{"rendered":"George Lang Had an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

An extremely pleasant <\/b>and perfectly bright acquaintance surprised me by stating with his usual attractive confidence that food is a frivolity and cooking not part of our cultural life. His spouse, whose every meal gives the lie to such silliness, just smiled.<\/p>\n

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\"George<\/a><\/p>\n

So I asked them if they knew that George Lang, best known as reinventor of New York’s Caf\u00e9 des Artistes, had just died. His life, I said with my own brand of confidence, may be worth a look, because he personified and made public the need to feed as well as be fed. How can hospitality not be inherent to the world’s manifold cultures, a mythic boon everywhere?<\/div>\n
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Lang’s 1998 autobiography, slightly puffy and larded with “stars,” does have a frivolous title: Nobody Knows the Truffles I’ve Seen<\/em>.Yet it tells a brave and even beautiful story of how a soul came into its own.<\/div>\n
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Here’s my Philadelphia Inquirer column<\/a> about the book and Lang’s life.\n<\/div>\n
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