The Official Foodie Handbook. Be Modern- Worship Food

London: Ebury Press, 1984. Squarish octavo (21.3 x 18 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Published just two years after the infamous Harper's & Queen article that brought the word "foodie" to the culinary conversation. Levy, edited by Barr, skewered an anonymous "foodie" for pretention and undeserved attention to a less-than-fully-important subject. Years later, Levy admitted he was himself the model for the anonymous foodie. The question of the first use of the word "foodie" remains in debate, as Gael Greene used the term the same month in an article in New York Magazine. Whoever was first, arrival of this new term signaled the onset of a new era of the elevated importance of food to a wider segment of the global population. Publisher's red cloth; in an unclipped dust jacket. A fine copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Priscilla, Foodie Friend, Ann Barr, Paul Levy"