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The Adventure of Food : True Stories of Eating Everything (Travelers' Tales Guides)
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Food --- its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals --- is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other cultures, and creates community and connection with others. From the award-winning editor of Travelers' Tales Food, here is another collection of funny and sometimes frightening true stories of eating that will make your mouth water while helping you better understand other cultures. Notable authors include Jeffrey Steingarten, Frances Mayes, Jonathan Raban, John Krich, and Maxine Kumin.
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Pages 336
Dimensions: Length: 7.99" Width: 5.16" Height: 0.81"
Weight: 0.89 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Nov 19, 1999
ISBN 1885211376
EAN 9781885211378
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 | WHAT'S COOKING? SAMPLE THE ENJOYMENT DISHED OUT HERE May 30, 2003 |
| Some words that immediately popped into our mind when we devoured this collection of short stories that dishes out our obsession with foods: Tasty. Terrific. Totally fat-free. The 55 well-written, well-seasoned tales here, drawn from the pages of various magazines and best-selling books, as well as original works, take us from Fiji to France, the this site.com to the Big Apple. Jeffrey Tayler encounters the pain of post-Soviet Russia in a humble sausage. Robert Strauss nibbles on a potato chip and experiences an exercise in Zen meditation. Jonathan Raban goes nuts s he discovers people eat squirrels in Wisconsin. David Lansing's cheese-smuggling confessional. Betcha you can't read just one! | | | | WHAT'S COOKING? SAMPLE THE ENJOYMENT DISHED OUT HERE May 30, 2003 |
| Some words that immediately popped into our mind when we devoured this collection of short stories that dishes out our obsession with foods: Tasty. Terrific. Totally fat-free. The 55 well-written, well-seasoned tales here, drawn from the pages of various magazines and best-selling books, as well as original works, take us from Fiji to France, the this site.comto the Big Apple. Jeffrey Tayler encounters the pain of post-Soviet Russia in a humble sausage. Robert Strauss nibbles on a potato chip and experiences an exercise in Zen meditation. Jonathan Raban goes nuts s he discovers people eat squirrels in Wisconsin. David Lansing's cheese-smuggling confessional. Betcha you can't read just one! | | |  | Food for Thought Mar 22, 2001 |
| How can you resist a book that includes an essay about the wonderful experience of eating one potato chip? I finished reading these essays in a jiffy and still hunger for a new collection of essays about food as good as this one. | | |  | Smug and Pompous Dec 16, 2000 |
| Imagine the biggest bore or show off you have ever had the misfortune to be waylaid by in a plane or at a party. Now you've got the idea of this book. Apparently, the writers, instead of sharing their travel and food adventures, engage in a sort of "Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, I've been to Timbuktu and you haven't," monologue. Since the Travelers' Tales series books are usually pretty good, this was disappointing. An example of how very bad it was, in one article about bad road coffee, in the first paragraph Tom Bently reminds us how he kissed his Krups. He couldn't just say "coffee-maker," but he must share with us the upscale brand name of his coffee maker. How gauche can you get? | | | | More than just food May 28, 2000 |
| I guess I'm a functional eater, you know, food is fuel. So this book really opened my eyes (my mouth?) and got me thinking about food in a completely new way. Great stuff, and funny too. Quirky, philosophical. Excuse me, I've got to go eat something new. | | | Write your own review about The Adventure of Food : True Stories of Eating Everything (Travelers' Tales Guides)
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