This is Jeffery Steingarten’s follow up book to The Man Who Ate Everything and as much as I enjoyed the first book, I have to admit I like the follow up better. Steingarten is as smart as he is outrageous. He explores the gastronomic world with a disarming sense of humor.

Some of my favorite essays included his fishing trip on his hunt for the freshest blue fin tuna and his four-day quest to create the perfect turducken. His essay on gourmet salts puts the debate into perspective and I feel as intimate with his well fed dog Sky King as if he had been my own pet.

Steingarten includes recipes along with his essays, but it is his writing that is the tastiest morsel of all. This is a must read for anybody with a sense of humor and a passion for food.