The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony Audiobook (Free)

A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by among our most influential and reputed food critics.

As the son of a diplomat developing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, touring, and eating in a few of the very most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced knowledge of civilizations and cuisines that resulted in some revelations which would about The Reserve of Consuming: Travels in Professional Gluttony show essential in his potential career being a food critic. In Tokyo, for example-“some sort of paradise for nose-to-tail food preparation”-he found that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a great one.’

From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi around the snowy roads of Moscow, Platt takes us all over the world, re-tracing the techniques of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glance into a existence that has intertwined meals and travel in thrilling and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is certainly a delightful and sumptuous trip that’s also the culinary coming-of-age of the voracious eater and his eventual ascension to be, as he places it, “a specialist glutton.”