One of the books was "The man who ate everything" by Jeffrey Steingarten. It's 10 years old now but still a good read. He's a foodie who seems obsessive about some of the little things in life. For example - how to fry the perfect chip and how to make the tastiest BBQ. He even writes about the combination of minerals needed to make water taste great (here I was thinking that water was just water.) It's a lot of fun to read about that behaviour in someone else although I'm not entirely sure how his wife feels about some of his experiments. (Baking bread at 3am?) He's written a follow up title, "It must've been something I ate : the return of the man who ate everything " which I'll be picking up from the library now that I'm up and about again.
Monday, 26 November 2007
"The man who ate everything"
I came off my bike a fortnight ago and grazed my leg quite badly. Consequently I had to spend seven days lying on the couch with my leg up. I took the opportunity to catch up on my reading.
One of the books was "The man who ate everything" by Jeffrey Steingarten. It's 10 years old now but still a good read. He's a foodie who seems obsessive about some of the little things in life. For example - how to fry the perfect chip and how to make the tastiest BBQ. He even writes about the combination of minerals needed to make water taste great (here I was thinking that water was just water.) It's a lot of fun to read about that behaviour in someone else although I'm not entirely sure how his wife feels about some of his experiments. (Baking bread at 3am?) He's written a follow up title, "It must've been something I ate : the return of the man who ate everything " which I'll be picking up from the library now that I'm up and about again.
One of the books was "The man who ate everything" by Jeffrey Steingarten. It's 10 years old now but still a good read. He's a foodie who seems obsessive about some of the little things in life. For example - how to fry the perfect chip and how to make the tastiest BBQ. He even writes about the combination of minerals needed to make water taste great (here I was thinking that water was just water.) It's a lot of fun to read about that behaviour in someone else although I'm not entirely sure how his wife feels about some of his experiments. (Baking bread at 3am?) He's written a follow up title, "It must've been something I ate : the return of the man who ate everything " which I'll be picking up from the library now that I'm up and about again.
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