When I’m on the road I eat a lot of peanut butter sandwiches. I eat a lot of vegetables, fish – I’m not a vegetarian – and I eat everything in moderation. (Christopher Wahl for The Globe and Mail) Patti Smith’s M Train is the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Just Kids. “I love to eat,” she declared while admitting to having “really bad table manners.” A breakfast of brown toast and olive oil, anyone? Watermelon juice and brown toast? White-bean soup with brown bread? Cold buckwheat noodles with yam? Yummy.Īgain, Smith, her hair now a lank grey, not the shock of jet black of yore, swatted down any concerns. It seems rather, well … skimpy, monochromatic. When I was in my 40s, my doctor told me I drank too much coffee, so I cut it down from 10 cups to two or three, usually in the morning.”Īlso worrying, at least to the reader of M Train, is Smith’s diet. “But when you’re young, you have no idea that might not be good for you. “When I was young, I drank 12 cups a day,” she confessed. “In this book, the text spans, like, 2-1/2 years and in that time I drink 45 cups of coffee.” Not enough, in other words, to worry that Smith, who’s 69 in December, is some doomed caffeine-head à la Balzac who, according to legend, downed as many as 50 cups in a day and died at 51. In the just-published memoir, M Train, Smith’s first book since 2010’s bestselling, award-winning Just Kids, she seems to be having a cup of steaming joe, black, every five or six pages, often in the Café ’Ino, a closet-sized boîte, now defunct, not far from her Greenwich Village digs in New York.īut that’s a misperception, a tea-sipping Smith stressed the other day during an afternoon interview in a downtown Toronto hotel lobby.
Patti Smith wants you to know she doesn’t drink too much coffee.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.
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