sienamystic: (book and heart)
[personal profile] sienamystic
A book I've been waiting for a while to read, and very much enjoyed.

Frank Bruni was, up until last year or so, the food critic for the New York Times. This book is a long, personal look at his relationship with food, his growing up in a large, food-focused Italian family, and his journey towards a more peaceful relationship with food.

It's a forthright story, written in an accessible, storytelling style that is intimate, but not overly sentimental. Bruni discusses his childhood, where eating more made Grandma happy, and where he discovered early on to be self-conscious of his extra pounds, without knowing exactly what to do about them. He charts his "scientific" attempts to stay thin, which ranged from bulimia and laxatives, to strange diets, to diet pills bought over the border in Mexico, to fasting. As he gets older, his career as a journalist frequently takes him into situations where food in huge quantities is always available, eaten hastily before the press bus departs on the next stop on the campaign trail, or late at night while sipping cocktails and hoping for a bit of news to spin into the story for the next day.

The idea of a person with all of these so-called food issues becoming a food critic is the throughline of the book. Navigating the rough waters with him, we come out on the other side sharing his happiness in his newfound peace of mind about his eating, and root for him to be able to maintain it in the future.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

Profile

sienamystic: (Default)
sienamystic

August 2019

S M T W T F S
    123
45678 910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios