β Scribed by Jim Gaffigan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"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...
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Why food? -- Curriculum vitae -- An eatie, not a foodie -- Why dad is fat -- Not Slim Jim -- Proud American -- The buffet rule -- Cup of gravy -- The geography of American food -- Seabugland -- Eating BBQland -- Super Bowl Sunday foodland -- Mexican foodland -- Wineland -- Coffeeland -- Food anxiety
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