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Summary: The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything
Review: "Sterling's themes are nothing less than human universality, passion and necessity, all told in stories straight from the gut."- Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior"The stories are bound to whet appetites for more than food."-Publishers Weekly "The 350-page collection of heart-warming, funny and sometimes frightening true stories will make your mouth water while helping you better understand other cultures."-Chicago Herald
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Summary: Disappointing Sequel
Review: After reading this book's predecessor, "Travelers' Tales: Food," I had been eagerly waiting for the next collection of stories. This book falls far short of the standard set in "Food." None are particularly memorable. Many have little to do with travel experiences. While I really love the Travelers' Tales books in general, this one was truly dissapointing.
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Summary: Disappointing Sequel
Review: After reading this book's predecessor, "Travelers' Tales: Food," I had been eagerly waiting for the next volume of stories. This book falls far short of the standard set in "Food." None of the stories are particularly memorable, enlightening or even entertaining. Many have little to do with travel experiences. While I really love the Travelers' Tales books in general, this one was truly dissapointing.
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Summary: Food for Thought
Review: 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.
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Summary: More than just food
Review: I guess I'm a functional eater, you know, food is fuel. So this book really opened my eyes (my mouth?) and got me thinking about food in a completely new way. Great stuff, and funny too. Quirky, philosophical. Excuse me, I've got to go eat something new.
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Summary: Smug and Pompous
Review: Imagine the biggest bore or show off you have ever had the misfortune to be waylaid by in a plane or at a party. Now you've got the idea of this book. Apparently, the writers, instead of sharing their travel and food adventures, engage in a sort of "Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, I've been to Timbuktu and you haven't," monologue. Since the Travelers' Tales series books are usually pretty good, this was disappointing. An example of how very bad it was, in one article about bad road coffee, in the first paragraph Tom Bently reminds us how he kissed his Krups. He couldn't just say "coffee-maker," but he must share with us the upscale brand name of his coffee maker. How gauche can you get?
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Summary: WHAT'S COOKING? SAMPLE THE ENJOYMENT DISHED OUT HERE
Review: 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!
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Summary: WHAT'S COOKING? SAMPLE THE ENJOYMENT DISHED OUT HERE
Review: 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!
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