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A review by illstoptheworldandreadwithyou
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown
My husband and I were big fans of Good Eats back in the day and even watched Feasting on Asphalt on DVD, so when I saw that this essay collection was coming out, I knew I wanted to read it.
In Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations, Alton Brown provides insight into his childhood, seminal moments that led to his culinary career, highlights into his different shows, and food for thought moments for the reader to also ruminate on.
Told with his trademark wit, humor, and a dash of science, it’s an entertaining—and educational—read.
Highlights for me include
- The heartfelt stories behind favorite recipes (especially the biscuit recipe)
- The octopus story (that made me cry)
- “Son of Blob”
- And the meditations over how striving for perfection has impacted entertaining
This is an enjoyable read any way you consume it, but if you do like audiobooks, I highly recommend listening to this one. Narrated by Brown himself, it feels like being transported into one of his TV shows, with his cadencing, asides, and laughs. Please note that he does speak more quickly than most audiobook narrators, so I found myself not speeding up the audiobook as much as I usually do.
Note: The print version has fun sketches included, so maybe you should check it out on both print and audio after all.
I received a free copy of the audiobook from Simon and Schuster Audio and a free copy of the book from Gallery Books. All review opinions are my own.
In Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations, Alton Brown provides insight into his childhood, seminal moments that led to his culinary career, highlights into his different shows, and food for thought moments for the reader to also ruminate on.
Told with his trademark wit, humor, and a dash of science, it’s an entertaining—and educational—read.
Highlights for me include
- The heartfelt stories behind favorite recipes (especially the biscuit recipe)
- The octopus story (that made me cry)
- “Son of Blob”
- And the meditations over how striving for perfection has impacted entertaining
This is an enjoyable read any way you consume it, but if you do like audiobooks, I highly recommend listening to this one. Narrated by Brown himself, it feels like being transported into one of his TV shows, with his cadencing, asides, and laughs. Please note that he does speak more quickly than most audiobook narrators, so I found myself not speeding up the audiobook as much as I usually do.
Note: The print version has fun sketches included, so maybe you should check it out on both print and audio after all.
I received a free copy of the audiobook from Simon and Schuster Audio and a free copy of the book from Gallery Books. All review opinions are my own.