The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything

By Richard Sterling

Book Overview

Food -- its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals -- is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885211376
• ISBN13: 9781885211378
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Food for Thought

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.

More than just food

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.