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Food: A Love Story

By Jim Gaffigan

By Jim Gaffigan

By Jim Gaffigan

By Jim Gaffigan

By Jim Gaffigan
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By Jim Gaffigan
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Sep 22, 2015 | ISBN 9780804140430

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Oct 21, 2014 | ISBN 9780804140423

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Oct 21, 2014 | 437 Minutes

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    About Food: A Love Story

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is Fat

    Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry?
     
    If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone. Feast along with America’s favorite food comedian, bestselling author, and male supermodel Jim Gaffigan as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face. Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.

    About Food: A Love Story

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is Fat

    Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry?
     
    If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone. Feast along with America’s favorite food comedian, bestselling author, and male supermodel Jim Gaffigan as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face. Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.

    About Food: A Love Story

    Comedian Jim Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator. 

    “What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend that you do not read his book.”
     
    Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet (“choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover”) and decrying the worst offenders (“kale is the early morning of foods”). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling book Dad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave—hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why pretzel bread is #3 on his most important inventions of humankind (behind the wheel and the computer), and the answer to the age-old question “which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?”

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    About Jim Gaffigan

    JIM GAFFIGAN is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show. When he is not eating in airports before flying to some city to eat and do stand-up comedy, he overeats in… More about Jim Gaffigan

    About Jim Gaffigan

    JIM GAFFIGAN is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show. When he is not eating in airports before flying to some city to eat and do stand-up comedy, he overeats in… More about Jim Gaffigan

    About Jim Gaffigan

    JIM GAFFIGAN is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show. When he is not eating in airports before flying to some city to eat and do stand-up comedy, he overeats in… More about Jim Gaffigan

    Product Details

    Category: Humor | Food Memoir & Travel

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Crown
    Sep 22, 2015 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780804140430

    Category: Humor | Food Memoir & Travel

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Crown Archetype
    Oct 21, 2014 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780804140423

    Category: Humor | Food Memoir & Travel | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 21, 2014 | 437 Minutes | ISBN 9780804192224
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    Praise

    “A highly entertaining and opinionated rumination on food.”—Esquire

    “Hilarious.”—Food & Wine

    “Gaffigan is delightful company, and he has a gift for comedy that is both clever and friendly. This book is a great use of his talents, and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish—as long as it doesn’t make you too hungry along the way.”—Splitsider

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