The Adventure of Food : True Stories of Eating Everything (Travelers' Tales Guides)

by Richard Sterling

Release Date: December, 1999

Edition: Paperback

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WHAT'S COOKING? SAMPLE THE ENJOYMENT DISHED OUT HERE

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 Amazon.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!

Food for Thought

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.