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

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Tom Parker Bowles

The Year Of Eating Dangerously

A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes

Tom Parker Bowles

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English

Ebury Press
02 April 2007

Cookery, food & drink; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

A hugely entertaining, vividly written account of Tom Parker Bowles culinary adventures in search of the world's most extreme and authentic foods

Tired of the bland, processed pap served up in supermarkets and identikit restaurants across the UK, food writer Tom Parker Bowles embarks on a picaresque global odyssey in search of culinary extremes.

The first to admit he has a timid tummy, Tom eschews the Michelin-starred restaurants he's grown accustomed to and seeks out the most authentic regional foods he can find. Full of trepidation, he puts his prejudices behind him and samples seahorse satay and millipede skewers in China, indulges in stomach-popping competitive eating in the States, and tentatively consumes the world's most poisonous fish in Japan.

Brilliantly written and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is an eye-opening adventure in the company of a man who may not be brave, but is certainly curious. Tom's visceral account of his journey will make your mouth water ... most of the time.

By: Tom Parker Bowles
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780091904913
ISBN 10: 0091904919
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 02 April 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Parker Bowles is a respected food critic, with high-profile columns in the Daily Mail's Night and Day magazine and Tatler . He is also the author of E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed.

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

Hilarious, macho and full of abstruse knowledge * Country Life * Inquisitive and acutely observed, it's an intimate, often humble account, full of warmth and honesty and underpinned with serious thought. Laugh-out-loud funny too * Delicious * An engaging read ... Tom is such a likeable narrator, enthusiastic, open, candid and sweary. He also has a fine line in self-deprecation ... Most of all he loves his food and communicates that zeal really well * Daily Mail * His descriptions of food are more often meant to turn your stomach than to encourage you to salivate, but they are nonetheless precisely worded, vivid and, in the case of dog soup, all too compelling ... I think Tom Parker Bowles is going to be a real writer with a feeling for food and drink * Observer * Tackles eating the weird and wonderful with a refreshing lack of machismo ... Like Redmond O'Hanlon at his maddened best -- Rose Prince * Daily Telegraph *