"...Geiken deserves praise for crafting a performance that leaves the audience longing for more. But Still's script makes the 75-minute visit an enigmatic hors d'oeuvre in which the flavors don't mesh."
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"...Early in the play, I Love to Eat: A Love Story with Food, James Beard (Garry Geiken) declares to the audience, "Moderation. I'm against it!" This line captured to me the true essence of James Beard: America's original foodie, TV's first cooking show host, confidante of Julia Child and author of over 20 cookbooks. An award bearing his name pays tribute to the America's food traditions and honors yearly the best regional and national chefs. Minneapolis foodies addicted to James Beard award-winner Lynne Rossetto Kasper and "The Splendid Table" will find a kindred spirit in James Beard as written by James Still, whose love of fresh ingredients, passion and joy in the art of cooking and general joie de vivre won my heart."
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Christine Sarkes Sasseville