What are your food-related reads these days?

[Anna N]

The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten and Born Round, Frank Bruni. And I have just finished Best Food Writing 2010, 2016, 2017.  Also finished Kim Severson’s Spoon Fed. 
 

 

[ElsieD]

I read The Man Who Ate Everything  a number of years ago.  I really enjoyed it.

[teonzo]

5 hours ago, Anna N said:

Born Round, Frank Bruni. And I have just finished Best Food Writing 2010, 2016, 2017.

 

Can you write some comments about these, please?

 

 

 

Teo

 

[Anna N]

26 minutes ago, teonzo said:

 

Can you write some comments about these, please?

 

 

 

Teo

 

I will see what I can do over the next few days. 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

On 7/12/2018 at 1:53 PM, JoNorvelleWalker said:

IThe people of Austria-Hungary ate it with enthusiasm, and not because it was good, but because it was there.

 

 

The story of so much classic food.  

[heidih]

I beg to differ but won't belabour - they still eat it - my people. You speak from personal experience?l It is in their freakin fridge now. 

[TdeV]

I was extremely interested to read Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted ©2016 which discusses protected names and the countries which do and don't enforce those designations.

 

Eye opening one might say.

[Darienne]

2 hours ago, TdeV said:

I was extremely interested to read Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted ©2016 which discusses protected names and the countries which do and don't enforce those designations.

 

Eye opening one might say.

Placed a hold on it at the local city library immediately.

 

[TdeV]

Make sure you come back and tell us what you think of the book, @Darienne. 🙃

[blue_dolphin]

I treated myself to a copy of Tamar Adler’s Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day (eG-friendly Amazon.com link). 
It's a small book, with an entry for each day of the year.  Some are a paragraph, some just a few words, others a full page or a bit longer. A couple of recipes or cooking descriptions that suffice for one appear but it’s not at all a cookbook.

Most of the reviews I’ve read are quite positive. This reviewer (Review: Feast on this) is less so, writing, “Adler’s yearlong food-themed meditation practice felt like an exhaustive stream of consciousness.” 
 

I don’t doubt that might be the case if one were to read through in one go, but I’ve enjoyed Adler’s writing in An Everlasting Meal (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) and The Everlasting Meal Cookbook (eG-friendly Amazon.com link) so I expect to enjoy dipping into this one over the course of the year. 

[Alex]

14 hours ago, Darienne said:

Placed a hold on it at the local city library immediately.

 

 

Ditto