The Year of Eating Dangerously [Idioma Inglés]: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes - Softcover

Parker Bowles, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0312531036 ISBN 13: 9780312531034

Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008

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A high-profile British food critic and the son of the Duchess of Cornwall documents his year-long odyssey in search of the world's most unusual and risky foods, a journey during which he consumed the infamous poison blowfish, a variety of insects, and other taboo cuisines. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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TOM PARKER BOWLES, son of Prince Charles' wife Camilla, is a respected British food critic, with columns in The Mail on Sunday, "Night and Day" and Tatler. He is also the author of E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed. He lives in London.

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The Year of Eating Dangerously

A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary ExtremesBy Parker Bowles, Tom

St. Martin's Griffin

Copyright © 2008 Parker Bowles, Tom
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ISBN: 9780312531034

I realize that beery bravado was the main culprit but I do remember (very vaguely) thinking what the point was in going on a search for the hottest sauces in the world if I didn’t try at least a spatter. I imagine myself stepping up to the challenge, a brave knight fighting for the pride of his homeland.
            ‘Bollocks to that,’ says my ever-sensitive friend. ‘You were a sweaty mess, and the whole crowd was waiting to see you go down in a blaze of unglory.’
            Apparently, the braying masses whooped for joy when I took on the challenge. And the crowd grew bigger still, as at least a dozen hot-sauce maestros gathered expectantly to have a laugh at the English fool. The bottle appeared once more, named Salsa Para Pendejos.
            Now it’s one thing drunkenly agreeing to try a drop of this liquid fire but quite another to risk putting myself in hospital before I’ve finished at The Fiery Foods Show. I took the straw, touched it to my palm so there was a dot no bigger than a comma. A few in the crowd voiced their disappointment.
            Ignoring the heckles, I touched the tip of my tongue to the dot of sauce on my hand, probably taking no more than a quarter of the punctuation mark blob. The crowd grew silent, craning their necks to get a better view.
--from A Year of Eating Dangerously
 

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• Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312531036
• ISBN 13: 9780312531034
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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