The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes

Parker Bowles, Tom

ISBN 10: 0312373783 / ISBN 13: 9780312373788

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2007

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Synopsis:

Fugu. Dog. Cobra. Bees. Spleen.  A 600,000 SCU chili pepper.
All considered foods by millions of people around the world.  And all objects of great fascination to Tom Parker Bowles, a food journalist who grew up eating his mother's considerably safer roast chicken, shepherd's pie and mushy peas.  Intrigued by the food phobias of two friends, Parker Bowles became inspired to examine the cultural divides that make some foods verboten or "dangerous" in the culture he grew up with while being seen as lip-smacking delicacies in others. So began a year-long odyssey through Asia, Europe and America in search of the world's most thrilling, terrifying and odd foods.
 
Parker Bowles is always witty and sometimes downright hilarious in recounting his quest for envelope-pushing meals, ranging from the potentially lethal to the outright disgusting to the merely gluttonous--and he proves in this book that an open mouth and an open mind are the only passports a man needs to truly discover the world .  
 
 

About the Author:

TOM PARKER BOWLES, son of Prince Charles’ wife Camilla, is a respected British food critic, with columns in The Mail on Sunday, “Night and Day” and Tatler.  He is also the author of E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed. He lives in London. 
 


 

 

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global ...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good