Food: A Love Story Hardcover – October 21, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon’s Jim Gaffigan Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0804140413 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Food: A Love Story – October 21, 2014
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- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Crown Archetype (October 21, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804140413
- ISBN-13: 978-0804140416
- Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Books > Humor & entertainment > Humor > Cooking
- #1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Culinary
- #1 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking education & reference > Essays
In an overfed country, it might be difficult to get enough distance and perspective to make fun of our food obsession. For Jim Gaffigan it is as easy as rolling out of bed at the crack of noon. He has divided the country into food clichés, coffee in the northwest, cheese in the Midwest, seafood in the northeast, and attacked with gusto and green chiles. And cheese. Always cheese. Cheese is the highest form of edible in Creation. The rest of the book is devoted to comfort foods and purveyors of them. The worse the better. The research for this book alone would have killed me.
Gaffigan has packed this book with wonderful takeaways I don’t want to forget. My faves:
-I try to stick to three meals a day and then another three at night.
-I like to think coffee comes from beans; therefore it’s a vegetable.
-You know what would be good on this hamburger? A ham sandwich.
-Doctor (to patient who drinks KFC gravy straight): I have your cholesterol levels here … Okay, you’re aware your blood is not moving?
-Going to the gym for an hour is the American way of fasting.
-Based on the appearance of the hippo, it is surprising it is not indigenous to the Midwest.
-Maybe Canadian explorers made it to Alaska and saw the Eskimos eating blubber and thought: “Oh, the Americans already got here.”
-I don’t know much about grammar, but I think kale salad is what they call a double negative. (Compare to cheesecake, a double positive.)
Food – A Love Story is peppered, if that is the right word, with photos of the Gaffigans, eating, everything, everywhere. There is just one recipe, an excruciatingly detailed and tortured procedure for preparing a hot dog.
Food: A Love Story is the second book by Jim Gaffigan, the stand-up comedian/bestselling author. After Dad is Fat rushed up the New York Times Bestseller list a year ago, the comedian was quick to write another book about what he knows best. Gaffigan is a very successful comedian who sells out theatres around the world. Much of this success is due to his love of food and his ability to make fun of food culture and his obsession with eating. In fact, his catchphrase, which is referenced in the book, is “Hot Pockets”. Fans of Gaffigan’s are familiar with the premise of these jokes where he explains what happens after you eat the microwaveable bread wrapped meal and then sings the jingle, which is just the name, “Hot Pockets” that follows three descending notes. In addition to the famous “Hot Pocket” jokes, Gaffigan has made a living off of other funny and relatable observations on food. Given how much we have laughed at his stand-up/food comedy, this book came highly anticipated and it did not disappoint.
Often when reading books written by comedians, it can be hard to find the voice of the comic. In the case of Gaffigan’s writing, this is not the case. Written with his wife, Jeannie, as they do with his stand-up material, Gaffigan’s voice comes through loud and clear. Oftentimes, the reader can hear Jim’s voice and it is easy to catch yourself reading it in the rhythm that the comedian uses when performing on stage. This is a big reason why the book works so well. Not only is the content funny, but it is like reading a stand-up set. Each chapter reads like a bit that could performed on stage. In fact, some of the chapters, like the one on fish, for example, shares similarities with some of the material that Jim Gaffigan performs in his act.
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