The Man Who Ate Everything
by Jeffrey Steingarten
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Book Reviews of The Man Who Ate Everything
Book Review: A guy who likes to hear himself ramble
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading all of the reviews, I thought this would be a good, insightful read for someone who is interesting in the culinary arts. Instead, it's like listening to someone tell you a long boring story and you don't have the heart to stop them. He goes on about little projects like finding the cheapest subsistence diet, the difference between ketchups, and all the ridiculous diets he has been on. Very boring, inconclusive, and uninteresting. Also, I wouldn't trust anyone's palette who likes Diet Coke as much as this guy. $14 bucks wasted.Book Review: Food Science 101
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife subscribes to Vogue but I'm the one that rips off the plastic and finds Jeffrey Steingarten's column first. The August Vogue column describes how to optimally bake pizza, which requires temperatures of up to 750 degrees. How can you achieve this in your own home? Through intelligent trial, error, more error, and science, Steingarten will show you. This delightful book is full of his skeptical, inquisitive research, his obsessive need to cook the perfect french fry, and the smarts to demonstrate why salad is bad for you.Book Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK!
Summary: 5 Stars
Once I picked this book up, I could not put it down for the life of me! Yes, the guy sounds a bit off-putting at first, but the book is so incredibly thorough, so well written, so funny, informative, exhaustive, I cannot say enough! If you like to cook, love to eat, and want to read about it, you need to read this book. It was so funny at times I laughed out loud. This guy has SUCH a passion for food, such awesome research! I'm a vegetarian, so even though I couldn't eat "everything", I was sure jealous of his job.Book Review: Unique!
Summary: 5 Stars
Did you know Jeffrey Steingarten was a lawyer before he became the food writer for Vogue? That was the best news I have heard since graduating from law school - and it was a brilliant move for Steingarten, whose wit and enthusiasm make reading this book almost like a conversation with the author himself. Steingarten's adventures in the world of food provide satisfying descriptions, great advice, and answers to questions you never knew you had. A definite must-have for every gourmet, and lawyer who dreams of a career change.Book Review: Not as good as the reviews sounded.
Summary: 2 Stars
I was pretty disappointed in Steingarten's book. It's certainly not as riveting or entertaining as I expected from other reviews. What I found really annoying was the way he goes into intense, excruciating detail about some aspect of food, e.g. the taste of water. Then suddenly, as if he stopped, counted words, and realized he had made the required limit for his column, he cuts the article off with a unfullfilling, anti-climatic "That's the way it is!" (Not an exact quote of course!)