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The Man Who Ate Everything
The Man Who Ate Everything | Jeffrey Steingarten
Funny, outrageous, passionate, and unrelenting, Vogue's food writer, Jeffrey Steingarten, will stop at nothing, as he makes clear in these forty delectable pieces. Whether he is in search of a foolproof formula for sourdough bread (made from wild yeast, of course) or the most sublime French fries (the secret: cooking them in horse fat) or the perfect piecrust (Fannie Farmer--that is, Marion Cunningham--comes to the rescue), he will go to any length to find the answer. At the drop of an apron he hops a plane to Japan to taste Wagyu, the hand-massaged beef, or to Palermo to scale Mount Etna to uncover the origins of ice cream. The love of choucroute takes him to Alsace, the scent of truffles to the Piedmont, the sizzle of ribs on the grill to Memphis to judge a barbecue contest, and both the unassuming and the haute cuisines of Paris demand his frequent assessment. Inevitably these pleasurable pursuits take their toll. So we endure with him a week at a fat farm and commiserate over low-fat products and dreary diet cookbooks to bring down the scales. But salvation is at hand when the French Paradox (how can they eat so richly and live so long?) is unearthed, and a "miraculous" new fat substitute, Olestra, is unveiled, allowing a plump gourmand to have his fill of fat without getting fatter. Here is the man who ate everything and lived to tell about it. And we, his readers, are hereby invited to the feast in this delightful book.
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#QuotsyMay21 @TK-421
Prompt: Barbecue

Yout can't be in thre south without eating barbecue. ❤🍽🍢

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"I found this ideal in sharp and ironic contrast to the recipes that I write. Mine take between four hours and four days to prepare...and contain ingredients that you must either send away for or bring back from a trip to Alba or Kyoto."

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"I have always considered people who believe that chocolate is a poison to be twisted beyond redemption."

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Teafiend
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"She was so disoriented by either the meal or my unsparing advice that she ate a large handful of potpourri as we waited for our coats". I can't stop laughing already!

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Getting hungry already

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I'm not a fan of food memoirs in general, but this one was enjoyable. This book of essays has a bit of everything food related - food and body science, personal experiments with making food, food in culture, travel, etc. I do wish I had read it in small chunks rather than straight through, but it still gets a pick from me.

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