Stefan Gates
Autore di Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
Opere di Stefan Gates
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Science You Can Eat: 20 Activities that Put Food… di Stefan Gates
Reading Level 2nd-4th
This is a book that was written to accompany a BBC television show by a British food writer who decided to travel to various hot spots around the world to find out how people eat and survive in truly nasty situations--it really makes for depressing reading as he goes from refuge camps to slums to war zones.
Begins earnestly and uncomfortably and carries on that way. Not a bad read, but awkward because the project - eating with the most poor and marginalised populations of the world - is awkward. Bit too heavy on the "wow! look at the creepy shit I ate!" factor and pissweak belief in some benevolent capitalism "trickling down". It's never going to trickle down to Haiti, Stefan. Not with all those people with their hands out in the way
A self-described "epicurean desperado," Gates's book describes some of his more interesting food-related adventures, misadventures, and experiments. Don't let the rather plain cover fool you - this is hysterical, in a very British way (and I mean that as a sincere compliment). For instance, he has a chapter entitled "How to Stage a Bacchanalian Orgy," complete with substitute suggestions for hard-to-find ingredients like dormice. He also has sections on cannibal recipes, foods that are considered aphrodisiacs, and how to cook guinea pigs. His advice includes how to gild Cheetos and sausages with edible gold and what to eat in order to produce the most flatulence.
To read the whole review, go here: http://apparentlynotderanged.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-reviews-gastronaut.html… (altro)
To read the whole review, go here: http://apparentlynotderanged.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-reviews-gastronaut.html… (altro)
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- Utenti
- 235
- Popolarità
- #96,241
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- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 30
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