The Man Who Ate Everything
On sale
8th July 1999
Price: £10.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780747260974
‘I have yet to meet anyone who hasn’t adored this book’ Nigella Lawson
‘Absolutely not to be missed’ Spectator
‘Like all great food writing, The Man Who Ate Everything celebrates much more than the journey from plate to palate . . . An excellent investment.’ Time Out
Jeffrey Steingarten’s award-winning collection of essays on food.
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 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. As well as his outrageously honest and hilarious writing, you’ll find recipes including Perfumed Rice with Lamb and Lentils, Salt-and Pepper Shrimp and Lemon Granita.
A must for everyone who’s ever enjoyed a meal – this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about food, but were too hungry to ask . . .
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Reviews
I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't adored this book once they've read it.
I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't adored this book
Wonderfully extreme
This book is gastronomic writing of the highest order, deserving a place alongside Elizabeth David and M. F. K. Fisher.
Here is a great feast of a volume, a banquet of a book. It is both long and rich, full of intense flavours, new discoveries, unexpected contrasts . . . Splendid.
Like the best modern-day food writers, Steingarten's style is a mix of wittily intellectual inquiry and glorious gluttony . . . Little escapes his scrutiny, humour or delight.
Absolutely not to be missed.
Only a reader with a hard heart, an incurious stomach or a hopelessly dormant sense of humour will fail to be charmed and captivated by his exhaustive exploration of all things gustatory'
A unique gastronomic sociology, an engrossing journey to America's heart through the grisly contents of its stomach
There are only a handful of writers who combine cookery journalism with food reportage, and it is excellent to have a polymath with the charm and literary skill to enlighten and amuse us on a subject whose importance is so easily and regularly trivialised
Wildly funny . . . but funny with a purpose: to celebrate what is good and attack (savagely) what is awful. Learned, well-written, contentious, passionate.'
Like all great food writing, The Man Who Ate Everything celebrates much more than the journey from plate to palate . . . An excellent investment.