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by Jeffrey Steingarten
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Vintage (1998-10-27)
ISBN: 0375702024
EAN: 9780375702020
Dewy Decimal #: 641.0130207
Paperback: 528 pages
Edition: Vintage Books ed
Release Date: 1998-10-27
SKU: 092708036
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...heavy edge wear with creases in cover
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Winner of the Julia Child Book Award
A James Beard Book Award Finalist
When Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingarten is "fairly sure that God meant the color blue mainly for food that has gone bad." In this impassioned, mouth-watering, and outrageously funny book, Steingarten devotes the same Zen-like discipline and gluttonous curiosity to practically everything that anyone anywhere has ever called "dinner."
Follow Steingarten as he jets off to sample choucroute in Alsace, hand-massaged beef in Japan, and the mother of all ice creams in Sicily. Sweat with him as he tries to re-create the perfect sourdough, bottle his own mineral water, and drop excess poundage at a luxury spa. Join him as he mounts a heroic--and hilarious--defense of salt, sugar, and fat (though he has some nice things to say about Olestra). Stuffed with offbeat erudition and recipes so good they ought to be illegal, The Man Who Ate Everything is a gift for anyone who loves food.
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Amazon.com Review
When Jeffrey Steingarten was made food critic of Vogue in 1989, he began by systematically learning to like all the food he had previously avoided. From clams to Greek food to Indian desserts with the consistency of face cream, Steingarten undertook an extraordinary program of self-inflicted behavior modification to prepare himself for his new career. He describes the experience in this collection's first piece, before setting out on a series of culinary adventures that take him around the world.It's clear that Vogue gave Steingarten carte blanche to write on whatever subjects tickled his taste buds, and the result is a frequently hilarious collection of essays that emphasize good eating over an obsession with health. "Salad, the Silent Killer" is a catalog of the toxins lurking in every bowl of raw vegetables, while "Fries" follows a heroic attempt to create the perfect French fry--cooked in horse fat. Whether baking sourdough bread in his Manhattan loft or spraying miso soup across a Kyoto restaurant, Steingarten is an ideal guide to the wilder reaches of gastronomy, a cross between M.F.K. Fisher and H.L. Mencken.
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Customer Reviews
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He's been there and eaten that
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-09-18
A wonderful book by the senior judge of Iron Chef America.Steingarten as food editor for Vogue has had the opportunity to explore many cuisines and has praises and problems for all of them. Well written the book is often humerous and always informative. There is the almost ever present happy attitude in the book that seems to say "they pay me for doing and generally enjoying all of this, life is sweet." There is also the logical training he has had as a lawyer that gives the book a unique perspective missing in most food books. I think the logic of his approach is often stymied by the very subjective and emotional topic that is food. This built in conflict is often the source of the books humor. Well worth reading if you never watch Iron Chef but an absolute must read if you do.
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Deliciously fabulous!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-26
Mr. Steingarten should be awarded for writing this book.
I searched in vain for an email address so I could tell him directly how much I enjoyed his book. Leaving a short review here is my own way of saying THANK YOU. I could not have picked up a better companion for my two-month stay in Hanoi, where I went to study Vietnamese cuisine. Hours of very well written stories and good laughs.
Anabela
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Better Than a Midnight Snack
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-06
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book of short articles is just the thing for bedside reading. Charming,witty, and lots of fun in the world of food. It's a "pick-up put-down" book to settle you down for a great nights sleep.
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Funny, maybe - nutritionally responsible not!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-03-02
0 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
This may be a mildy entertaining and informative book on food around the world, but to make such wide claims as salad consumption leading to death is absurd. Steingarten obviously loves food and food high in fat, calories and cholesterol so this book will certainly make you, and himself, feel better about eating these foods, that is until you keel over from a heart attack. His advice on nutrition is out-dated, selectively researched and all together wrong in many areas. Please use caution when taking health advice from somone who spends days, weeks and a lifetime searching for the best french fry or ice cream cone.
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I can't get enough!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Though I've followed Jeffrey Steingarten's column in Vogue magazine ever since I first came across it, I hadn't realized that he'd published two books, both compilations of his essays in Vogue. I must say, I'm addicted. Having read both The Man Who Ate Everything, and It Must Have Been Something I ate, I am reduced to "googling" to find more Steingarten gems. Alas, the closest thing was his Q&A on egullet.com
Perhaps the fact that I'm a food junkie (despite bordering on veganism) colors this review, I still appreciate the witty writing and almost exhaustive research and thought that went into each essay. Not only is he a wonderful writer, researcher, his passion of food is infectious.
I highly recommend any Steingarten book.
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