The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty Thieving God-Fearing Gourmand

More than a collection of vignettes and stories from garden grill and kitchen The Culinary Plagiarist is a sustained adventure in gustatory delight an intensely private but candid account of desire and all its objects. Opinionated on the full range of human experience from fasting to inebriety from sports to politics from religion to raunch it is at once serious humorous ironic reflective grateful allusive and appetitive. Along the way it offers a defense of small-scale local life of family of place and of the bread we do not live alone by. And also the drinks. Dont forget the drinks. This is a book for people who enjoy being alive whether in the kitchen the pasture the library the barn the trout stream the henhouse (or the doghouse) or the bedroom.