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The Man Who Ate Everything
Jeffrey Steingarten
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Description for The Man Who Ate Everything
Paperback.
Jeffrey Steingarten is to food writing what Bill Bryson is to travel writing. Whether he is hymning the joys of the perfect chip, discussing the taste of beef produced from Japanese cows which are massaged daily and fed on sake, or telling us the scientific reasons why salad is a 'silent killer', his humour and his love of good food never fail. The questions he asks (like 'Why aren't the French dropping like flies?') will challenge everything you assume you know about what you eat, yet his characteristic wit imparts masses of revelatory information in the most palatable of ways. ... Read more
Jeffrey Steingarten is to food writing what Bill Bryson is to travel writing. Whether he is hymning the joys of the perfect chip, discussing the taste of beef produced from Japanese cows which are massaged daily and fed on sake, or telling us the scientific reasons why salad is a 'silent killer', his humour and his love of good food never fail. The questions he asks (like 'Why aren't the French dropping like flies?') will challenge everything you assume you know about what you eat, yet his characteristic wit imparts masses of revelatory information in the most palatable of ways. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747260974
SKU
V9780747260974
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Jeffrey Steingarten
Jeffrey Steingarten trained to become a food writer at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Lampoon. He is the internationally feared and acclaimed food critic of American Vogue.
Reviews for The Man Who Ate Everything
I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't adored this book once they've read it.
Nigella Lawson
'wonderfully extreme' Independent 23/9 Gastronomic writing of the highest order, deserving a place alongside Elizabeth David and MFK Fisher.
Independent
Here is a great feast of a volume, a banquet of a book. It is both long and ... Read more
Nigella Lawson
'wonderfully extreme' Independent 23/9 Gastronomic writing of the highest order, deserving a place alongside Elizabeth David and MFK Fisher.
Independent
Here is a great feast of a volume, a banquet of a book. It is both long and ... Read more