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• Padma Lakshmi
• Adam Gopnik
• Rachael Ray
• Food and Cooking
• Television

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There's an implicit sneer in Top Chef hostess Padma Lakshmi's back cover blurb for New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik's latest book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (Knopf, $25.95). It's the "perfect book for any intellectual foodie," she says, mustering the enthusiasm of a cheerleader at a cum laude ceremony. But Lakshmi has a point: Gopnik's roughing up of Rosseau and critiques of Brillat-Savarin probably won't magnetize the Rachael Ray crowd. He jumps headlong from economic theory to Fergus Henderson to Jell-O, applying his signature mix of precise reasoning and everyday observation to topics that will rivet eaters who "have enough intellectual detachment from tastes to see their absurdity, while taking enough emotional fulfillment from them to grasp their necessity." Doesn't that sound better than foodie? HANNA RASKIN
Fri., Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., 2011