Take Big Bites - Hardcover

Ellerbee, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399152687 ISBN 13: 9780399152689

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2005

Synopsis

A producer for the Nickelodeon network's award-winning Nick News series presents a culinary and travel memoir in which the author remembers the people she met in numerous other cultures, describes the foods she ate, and shares several recipes.

About this title

About the Author:

A veteran of NBC, CBS, and ABC, Linda Ellerbee now runs Lucky Duck Productions, which produces a wide variety of programs all across the television spectrum but is best known for its highly praised, multi-award-winning Nick News series and topical children's specials for Nickelodeon.

From Booklist:

Veteran television correspondent Ellerbee is well known and well regarded for her verve, humor, and irreverence. A self-described "recovering journalist who's traveled and eaten her way around the planet and lived to tell some tales," she offers an amazing glance back on the times and meals of her life of 60 years. In the course of her meanderings, she describes her girlhood in Texas in the 1950s, coming-of-age and hippie-hood in the 1960s, marital failures, parenting success, career disappointments, breast cancer, and mature, true love--all against the backdrop of both fabulous and mundane locales and mouthwatering meals. Ellerbee recalls eating caviar on Malcolm Forbes' yacht and admitting that he was a far better human being than the one she had intended to lambaste in an article; discovering the connection between lunch and lust in Paris as she and her husband try to revive a flagging marriage; and rediscovering her mother's fudge pie recipe as she and her longtime Texas girlfriends recall their youthful obsessions (each chapter ends with a recipe). Readers who have enjoyed Ellerbee's And So It Goes (1986) and Move On (1991), and even those who haven't, will absolutely love this remembrance of a life well lived. It is every bit as delicious as the food she describes. Vanessa Bush
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0399152687
• ISBN 13: 9780399152689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320