Dinner with Edward, Isabel Vincent
Dinner with Edward, Isabel Vincent
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Dinner with Edward

Author: Isabel Vincent

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Unabridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2016


Synopsis

When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping Edward's daughter—who lives far away and asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York—Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light as air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life.

As Edward and Isabel meet weekly for the glorious dinners that Edward prepares, he shares so much more than his recipes for apple galette or the perfect martini, or even his tips for deboning poultry. Edward is teaching Isabel the luxury of slowing down and taking the time to think through everything she does, to deconstruct her own life, cutting it back to the bone and examining the guts, no matter how messy that proves to be.

About Isabel Vincent

Isabel Vincent is an investigative reporter for the New York Post. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro and before that she covered the conflicts that led to the war in Kosovo. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers all over the world, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, L'Officiel, and Time. She is the author of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows; Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Pursuit of Justice; and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer. The recipient of numerous journalism honors, including the Canadian Association of Journalist's Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism, she has been a journalism fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. Vincent won the National Jewish Book Award in Canada for Bodies and Souls and the Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust History for Hitler's Silent Partners. She grew up in Toronto and speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Today, she lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on March 21, 2025

Delicious. Delightful. If you are a foodie you are going to love the references to the many dishes mentioned throughout this beautiful short novel. And...You will absolutely adore the budding friendship between Isabel and the 93 year old Edward who likes to cook for her. Also...Little did she know t......more

Goodreads review by JanB on February 08, 2017

2.5 stars Isabel, struggling over her crumbling marriage, and Edward, a man in his 90s who is grieving over the recent death of his wife, strike up a friendship over weekly dinners. The meals that are so lavishly described are a springboard for stories from both their lives. Edward's wisdom on love,......more