Would you read a book . . . .?

Question

. . . . that was a collection of personal essays about social and life experiences with food and cooking (and everything related to it)?

Specifically, would you pick it up or find it interesting?

What if the name of the book was "Concentrated Death and Other Food Tales" or "Never Trust a Skinny Chef" or even "Save Me From the Mangoes!"

Can you come up with a better title that would make you more interested in picking it up?

Answer 1

I am reading a book right now on Funeral Rituals and practices and it is also a cookbook, which i found fascinating it has a good recipe on funeral cake. I found it a good read because I learn a lot about different cultures and how the mourned and how they ate and how food comforted them when they needed it, The book was called "Death Warmed Over" It was quite interesting.

If a book was called "Concentrated Death and Other Food Tales" I know I would read it. I liked your title. If you are writing a book I wish you the best of luck and please let me know when it is published I would love to read it and try out some of the recipes.

Answer 2

A book quite similar to the one you mentioned is "In Search Of Our Mother's Gardens" by Alice Walker. I just love that book. A collection of Walker's essays on life, it contains her writings such as the above title, as well as "Duties Of The Revolutionary Artist". It is a bit dated, but it should be, since it documents a period of her life, pre-Color Purple.

I got hooked on it back in my revolutionary socialist days. These days I'm more ineffective bourgeoisie than revolutionary, but I still like the book.

Answer 3

honestly,
I wouldn't read a book about food.
but yours sounds a little more interesting since it all clicks in with your life and experiences.

I like the "never trust a skinny chef"
kindof stereotypical about chefs being fat.
which makes it funny, because you're not being stereotypical.


i just might read it.

Answer 4

nah...I tell everybody that the easiest way to describe the type books that I read is....if it has a dead body in it or their is the possibility of a dead body, then I'll read it. Though, "Concentrated Death and Other Food Tales" might catch my eye for a moment! :D

Answer 5

I like the, "Never trust a skinny chef" i would pick up that.

Answer 6

If I can read a book called "God uses cracked pots" or "uncle john's bathroom essays" - I would read "save me from the mangoes"

LOL

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