Fourth in our internationally acclaimed Offbeat series, Offbeat Food: Adventures in an Omnivorous World explores the unusual, unexpected, and extraordinary aspects of food and food culture. This unique book will provide hours of robust entertainment for even the finickiest gourmet. Everything from food Americana-style to the mysterious durian fruit to the appearance of food in the arts and popular culture to the oddities and delights of the international palette is covered in this "foodie" smorgasbord. Alan Ridenour's postmodern foodlore primer is guaranteed to start-and end-countless dinner table conversations and arguments.
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"If you're wild about food, and we are, you'll love this culinary adventure. Alan Ridenour takes us through history and around the world learning delicious tidbits that surprise and tantalize." -- MarySue Milliken and Susan Feniger, Chefs, Restaurateurs, Cookbook Authors, TV and Radio Personalities
"Offbeat Food contains hundreds of interesting, amusing (and, at times, unsettling) factoids about all things edible..." -- Foreword magazine
"Offbeat Food is a fun, informative, and very personal tribute to the history, comfort, and love we relate to food. -- Piero Selvaggio, Chef and Owner of Valentino, Los Angeles
"Reverend Al, who has honored my hometown with rampaging woodland creatures, murderous clowns, human barbecues, and Charles Mansons sculpted out of Swiss cheese has done it again." -- Jonathan Gold, restaurant critic, Gourmet Magazine
"The author serves up an intriguing assortment of foods that are little known or rarely consumed in America as well as familiar ones whose origins have long been forgotten." -- Michael Owen Jones, Chairman Folklore and Mythology Program, UCLA
"an extraordinary culinary journey through history and around the world..." -- Santa Fe New Mexican
...a lively introduction to food curiosities at home and abroad, much of it supported by scholarship in food history -- Gastronomica
"Offbeat Food contains hundreds of interesting, amusing (and, at times, unsettling) factoids about all things edible..." -- Foreword magazine
"Offbeat Food is a fun, informative, and very personal tribute to the history, comfort, and love we relate to food. -- Piero Selvaggio, Chef and Owner of Valentino, Los Angeles
"Reverend Al, who has honored my hometown with rampaging woodland creatures, murderous clowns, human barbecues, and Charles Mansons sculpted out of Swiss cheese has done it again." -- Jonathan Gold, restaurant critic, Gourmet Magazine
"The author serves up an intriguing assortment of foods that are little known or rarely consumed in America as well as familiar ones whose origins have long been forgotten." -- Michael Owen Jones, Chairman Folklore and Mythology Program, UCLA
"an extraordinary culinary journey through history and around the world..." -- Santa Fe New Mexican
...a lively introduction to food curiosities at home and abroad, much of it supported by scholarship in food history -- Gastronomica
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wonderful and wacky,
By "justicechickens" (in the hills above Auburn, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Offbeat Food: Adventures in an Omnivorous World (Offbeat S.) (Paperback)
What a cool book! A bit of history,folklore and just a lot of fun. If you read cookbooks like novels this is definitely a book you will enjoy.Would make a great gift for curious food friends (hint - hint)or lovers of offbeat and odd facts.
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i have turned my will over to the care of al,
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this may sound pathetic but i would put anything into my mouth that al ridenour suggested, no matter how many transfats or grams of refined sugar. i would gladly give up my trim 31 inch waist to savor al's cursory approval. i would rifle a dozen donut stix into my pie hole, then follow up with a pickled pigs feet chaser, if only to make Al nod, perhaps smile, I would eat my boston terrier's poopy, if that's what it would take. I will go to any lengths to get what al has.
4 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Filth + Trash = Rubbish!,
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Just more filth, trash and rubbish from the sick mind of Albert Ridenour.Anything he puts to paper should be shredded and recycled for something worthy. Any publisher should just show him the door. Only a photocopy store and a stapler should be needed for the nonsense he dispenses. Alan, Albert or Al Ridenour represents nothing I or anyone stands for. I believe in censorship and book burnings when it comes to this pornographer! I spit on the ground he has walked on.
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