Food: A Love Story

Food: A Love Story is a humorous and tasty walk through the glory of food with comedian Jim Gaffigan, a funny man who LOVES to eat. He's no fancy 'foodie', just a regular Joe who has explored many of North America's greatest foods. 

This is an easy-going audiobook with a conversational tone that benefits from the author narrating. Some parts had me giggling out loud (crustaceans described as 'sea bugs' or churros as the 'pipe cleaner of pastry') and a few I found long-winded. Jim discusses many different foods, and this Canuck appreciated the Canadian references.

Embrace your inner foodie with this humorous read. While Jim won't get you eager to eat a salad, you will have unnatural cravings for donuts, hot dots and other tasty not-so-good-for-you treats on the gastronomical spectrum. You'll come away from reading this book hungry and with several restaurant recommendations around the US - from the best gas station BBQ to the best donuts, pizza and Coney Island hot dogs.

My Rating: 4 stars

Author: Jim Gaffigan

Genre: Humour

Type and Source: eAudio from public library

Narrator: author

Run Time: 7 hours, 17 min

Publisher: Random House Audio

First Published: Oct 21, 2014

Read: Nov 15 - 18, 2024

Book Description from GoodReads: “What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend that you do not read his book.”

 
Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet (“choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover”) and decrying the worst offenders (“kale is the early morning of foods”). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling book Dad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave—hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why pretzel bread is #3 on his most important inventions of humankind (behind the wheel and the computer), and the answer to the age-old question “which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?”