Food: A Love Story
<b>€œWhat 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.€ </b><br>  <br> 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 (€œchoking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover€Â) and decrying the worst offenders (€œkale is the early morning of foods€Â). Fans flocked to his <i>New York Times</i> bestselling book <i>Dad is Fat</i> 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 €œwhich animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?€Â