The Book of Eating, Adam Platt
The Book of Eating, Adam Platt
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The Book of Eating
Adventures in Professional Gluttony

Author: Adam Platt

Narrator: Adam Platt

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/12/2019


Synopsis

A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics.As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance—“a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking”—he learned that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one.""From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, “a professional glutton.”

About Adam Platt

Adam Platt has been a contributing editor and restaurant critic for New York magazine since 2000. He won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Restaurant Reviews in 2010. During the course of nearly twenty-five years in the magazine business, Platt has written for a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Observer, Esquire, and Condé Nast Traveler. He lives in Greenwich Village with his wife and two pizza-loving daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Russell on March 06, 2022

"The Book of Eating" records Adam Platt's life from a boyhood that seemed designed to prepare him for the role of professional glutton, restaurant critic for "New York" magazine. His father served as US ambassador to several nations in Asia and Africa, so his childhood exposed him to exotic street f......more

Goodreads review by Dipra on December 31, 2019

The formative years in Asia, a food loving family, and a gargantuan appetite were some of the reasons why Platt became such a brilliant restaurant / food critic. Terrific sense of humour too.......more

Goodreads review by Mme on July 17, 2020

Probably more like 3.5 stars. This book includes stories about the foodways of Adam Platt's forebears and of his formative years in Asia, as his father pursued a diplomat's career. It also includes stories about his years as a food critic for New York Magazine and as a free-lancer. The best parts of t......more

Goodreads review by Sevelyn on August 08, 2020

After reading this, it suddenly occurred to me that maybe we no longer need restaurant critics. Would a magazine be a lesser news vehicle without their Mount Olympus-level judgments? Why pick on poor Ed Sheeran, using his indisputable global success to mock restaurants? Why pick on Keith McNally for......more

Goodreads review by Scott on December 24, 2019

Adam Platt and I have the same job (well, the same has *one* of my jobs), but he's much more famous and a better writer than me. Still though! We're both food critics and food writers in NYC, which is a really amazing job to have in this, the greatest city in the world. He affects/feels a weariness/......more