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wester (Netherlands) (2008/04/27):
An autobiography told through food. Dinners cooked well, cooked awfully, cooked with or without love. Sweets. Just about anything that you can put into your mouth. Almost every chapter has some foodstuff as a title.This book has a great balance between the delicious and the disgusting, both described very plasticly. The description of eating spaghetti for the first time is hilarious. It also has a great balance between the very personal, almost ideosynchratic, and the culture this is grounded in. I also found it really touching at times. I would recommend keeping Wikipedia open while you read this so you can look up the foodstuffs. This is especially essential if you're not British.
And I would have preferred if this book had ended instead of just stopped. I would recommend it, though - if you like to read about food.
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