And I'll take my third ticket to nominate
Alice, Let's Eat by Calvin Trillin.
Now, I know some of you may not play bridge, but we ALL eat! And we all like to laugh out loud. With
Alice, Let's Eat, we can do both. Originally published in 1996, my DW and I read passages of this back and forth to each other as we both read it and often fought over who got to the book first (the problem of pBooks!) This is a collection of essays from
The New Yorker that cover his attempts to find the best examples of local foods.
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In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff d’oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel (“just in case”). And though Alice “has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day,” on the road she proves to be a serious eater–despite “seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation.”
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Overdrive
Amazon US
Amazon CA
Goodreads
A bit pricey, but it IS on Overdrive, and it's a nice length (192 pages). Oh, and did I mention? This is really
funny!