It Must've Been Something I Ate The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything

In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will doanythingto eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowlinto each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called "turducken." It Must've Been Something I Atefinds Steingarten testing the virtues of chocolate and gourmet salts; debunking the mythology of lactose intolerance and Chinese Food Syndrome; roasting marrow bones for his dog , and offering recipes for everything from lobster rolls to gratin dauphinois. The result is one of those rare books that are simultaneously mouth-watering and side-splitting. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Jeffrey Steingarten is <i>Vogue</i>'s food critic and the author of <b>The Man Who Ate Everything</b>. He trained to be a food writer at Harvard Law School and on the <i>Harvard Lampoon</i>. On Bastille Day, 1994, the French Republic made Mr. Steingarten a Chevalier in the Order of Merit for his writings on French gastronomy. Chevalier Steingarten discloses that his preferred eating destinations are Memphis, Paris, Bangkok, Alba, and Chengdu--and his loft in New York City, where he has recently created well over a firkin of cultured butter.<br><br>Essays in this collection have won a National Magazine Award and several prizes from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. <b>The Man Who Ate Everything</b> was a <i>New York Times </i>best-seller and the winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award and the Guild of British Food Writers Prize for the year's best book about food.