Food : a love story
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804140423 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0804140413 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780804140416 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
ix, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, [2014]
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Subject: | Food Humor |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 818.6 G131f 2014 (Text) | 33126019722663 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | 818.6 G131f 2014 (Text) | 33126017102058 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Celebrates the comedian's offbeat love affair with American junk foods, sharing his observations about such topics as unappetizing coconut water, the essential nature of pretzel bread, and the deliciousness of bacon cheeseburgers. - Baker & Taylor
A follow-up toDad Is Fat celebrates the comedian's offbeat love affair with American junk foods, sharing his uproarious observations about such topics as unappetizing coconut water, the essential nature of pretzel bread and the deliciousness of bacon cheeseburgers. 200,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
""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 isthe 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?""-- - Random House, Inc.
âWhat are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Hereâs why: Iâm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating Iâd highly recommend that you do not read his book.â
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 (âchoking on bacon is like getting murdered by your loverâ) and decrying the worst offenders (âkale is the early morning of foodsâ). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling bookDad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really craveâhundreds 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 âwhich animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?â