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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK!
Review: Once I picked this book up, I could not put it down for the life of me! Yes, the guy sounds a bit off-putting at first, but the book is so incredibly thorough, so well written, so funny, informative, exhaustive, I cannot say enough! If you like to cook, love to eat, and want to read about it, you need to read this book. It was so funny at times I laughed out loud. This guy has SUCH a passion for food, such awesome research! I'm a vegetarian, so even though I couldn't eat "everything", I was sure jealous of his job.
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Summary: Food Science 101
Review: My wife subscribes to Vogue but I'm the one that rips off the plastic and finds Jeffrey Steingarten's column first. The August Vogue column describes how to optimally bake pizza, which requires temperatures of up to 750 degrees. How can you achieve this in your own home? Through intelligent trial, error, more error, and science, Steingarten will show you. This delightful book is full of his skeptical, inquisitive research, his obsessive need to cook the perfect french fry, and the smarts to demonstrate why salad is bad for you.
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Summary: Fun Reading
Review: If you love cooking and enjoy good food, this is the book for you! Jeffrey Steingarten takes you along as he searches for the best granita, the perfect french fries and the best restaurants. You get to explore places and cities all around the world - from his own home kitchen to small towns in Italy. A wonderful book for summer reading. Keep in mind that this is not a cookbook. There are some recipes but this is a book about the cooking, baking and eating experience.
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Summary: Foodtastic
Review: I love food and I love to cook and a friend of mine who knew me well gave me this book as a gift. I laughed, I craved, I taste-tested, it was fabulous! I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to cook or eat. Steingarten is funny and thorough and I guarantee that you will be fiending for at least one of these foods before you are finished.
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Summary: pace yourself
Review: After reading several of the less than positive reviews, I have this to say: As with really good food, you may want to pace yourself through this book. I delight in Mr. Steingarten's articles in Vogue, but found myself putting down and picking up the book. He goes into some great detail about his subject -- so great that sometimes it is difficult to bounce right to the next essay/subject. One great reason to continue reading: a recipe for Milkyway Cake! mmmmmmm, chocolaty goodness.
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Summary: Pure enjoyement for the gourmand.
Review: I think anyone who truly appreciates and loves food will enjoy going on any of Steingarten's quests, excursions and adventures. I found this book to be full of smart, subtle humor that made me laugh out loud on a crowded airplane. Perhaps it is too smart or subtle for some. He is a snob about many things, but sensible enough to love Heinz ketchup with McDonald's fries.
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Summary: Highly informative and entertaining
Review: I had never heard of this author and had no expectations about what I was going to get when I read this book, and I loved it. It's full of interesting articles about why foods should be cooked certain ways (for example, how to cook potatoes for mashing so that they come out right and not gluey.) It tells stories about how to eat foods in certain cultures, and about new and interesting types of foods that you may never get to taste. There are also chapters where the author (and often his wife) review common foods such as ketchup - giving you descriptions of each brand and it's flavors and ingredients. The author has a quippy sense of humor that I found cute and relatively fresh - again, I had no expectations of what his style of humor was going to be. Apparently from reading some other reviews here there are people who like the author who feel that this book isn't his best work... but I recommend it to people who are unfamiliar with the author. A friend of mine started perusing my copy when she was over and later got her own.
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Summary: The best TV Food host on the air also has a book
Review: I recently discovered New York Eats on local television's Metro channel. Jeff & Ed Levine make a fine pair. Jeffrey Steingarten is as witty and intelligent in his book as he is as a host. The book is jam packed full of fun food facts and recipes.
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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: I was eagerly waiting for the arrival of this book. It seemed so interesting and original... Wrong! I started reading it and found myself just skipping page after page. I have a pretty good sense of humour, but I found nothing funny in this book. Just some rattling of someone who thinks he is funny and who is apparently as much in love with himself as he is with some of the food he eats. I really do not recommend this book.
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Summary: Half-witty and worth half of the reviews
Review: I thought the author of this book tried too hard to create experiences for himself to write about. I like to be engrossed in a book, to be disappointed when I have to put it down-this book does not do that. Steingarten surely writes like a lawyer, I give him that: he's wordy.
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