Food: A Love Story (Hardcover)

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Food: A Love Story (Hardcover)

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I loved Jim Gaffigan's first book, Dad is Fat, on being the father of 5 children in a two-bedroom walk-up apartment in Manhattan. He's just so hilarious I almost can't stand it. With Food: A Love Story, he touches me deep down in the cockles of my fatty fat heart. He loves donuts, he loves steak, and he thinks kale is hairy spinach. Gaffigan loves food but he isn't a foodie; he is a self-professed "eatie" who extrapolates on the rules of buffets ("It's all you CAN eat not all you SHOULD eat"), the divine nature of bacon, and Thanksgiving ("Stuffing? What names did they turn down? 'Cram It In?") Food: A Love Story is one of my favorites of the year.

— Charlotte

What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I d highly recommend that you do not read his book.
Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ( choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover ) and decrying the worst offenders ( kale is the early morning of foods ). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling book Dad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why pretzel bread is #3 on his most important inventions of humankind (behind the wheel and the computer), and the answer to the age-old question which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?
JIM GAFFIGAN is a stand-up comedian, actor, and bestselling author of Dad is Fat. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jeannie, and their five children.

Product Details ISBN: 9780804140416
ISBN-10: 0804140413
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Publication Date: October 21st, 2014
Pages: 352
Language: English