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Book of Eating : Adventures in Professional Gluttony by Adam Platt (2019, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100062293540

ISBN-139780062293541

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038300206

Product Key Features

Book TitleBook of Eating : Adventures in Professional Gluttony

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Culinary, Personal Memoirs, General, Essays & Travelogues

Publication Year2019

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Cooking, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAdam Platt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2020-275808

ReviewsGastronomes and fans of Platt will savor this behind-the-scenes look at real life as a restaurant critic in the big city., "Gastronomes and fans of Platt will savor this behind-the-scenes look at real life as a restaurant critic in the big city." -- Publishers Weekly "A candid, entertaining look at an often bizarre new gustatory landscape." -- Kirkus Reviews "...[An] entertaining and honest account of restaurant journalism, and a life worth exploring." -- Booklist "A timely and delectable smorgasbord of dishes and dishing...this honest, revealing and funny book is as deeply pleasurable as the soup dumplings Platt learned to love as a boy." -- New York Times Book Review "Longtime New York magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt offers a delicious peek behind the scenes of a storied career...Platt delivers a generous, hilarious case for the restaurant critic's enduring significance." -- BookPage (starred review)

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal641.5092

SynopsisA wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn't have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance--"a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking"--he learned that "if you're interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one." From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, "a professional glutton."

LC Classification NumberTX649.P53A3 2019