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Eat These Words: A Delicious Collection of Fat-Free Food for Thought by Debby Roth, Michael Cader
expendablemudge's review
3.0
Rating: 3* of five
The Publisher Says: Whether we're reducing our intake or increasing our exercise, staving off cravings or indulging with abandon, our relationship with food is nothing if not eternal. For the insatiable and the incurable alike, Eat These Words serves up a banquet of small delights guaranteed to satisfy the soul, if not the you-know-what. Here are nutritious words of wisdom and wit, consolation and consternation, carefully culled from both the great of mind and the great of body, from Plato to Roseanne Barr.
Scientifically organized according to the four basic food-for-thought groups, Eat These Words contains easy-to-digest for every part of the tortured processes we call diet, exercise, and food. It begins by commiserating with your frustration. Like any good book on diet and exercise, it provides timeless advice on Energy Conservation. For those nagging moments of remorse after polishing off the entire chocolate cake by yourself, there are quotes to induce the appropriate shame. But most of all, for the inevitable submission to the pure joys of food, there are expressions of Love.
The next time you think you're the only person who obsesses over the struggle with food, take comfort in the words of Virginia Woolf, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Bertolt Brecht, Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and many others. To satisfy all your cravings, simply Eat These Words.
My Review: Chuckles, smiles, snerks, and a belly laugh or two. The collection is 24 years old and feels fresh as the proverbial daisy. I picked this up for the heck of it, needing something that was unchallenging and amusing.
BookMooch and Paperback Swap are the way to go getting it into your library. Paying anything close to jacket price of $12.95 is not warranted.
Laugh on!
The Publisher Says: Whether we're reducing our intake or increasing our exercise, staving off cravings or indulging with abandon, our relationship with food is nothing if not eternal. For the insatiable and the incurable alike, Eat These Words serves up a banquet of small delights guaranteed to satisfy the soul, if not the you-know-what. Here are nutritious words of wisdom and wit, consolation and consternation, carefully culled from both the great of mind and the great of body, from Plato to Roseanne Barr.
Scientifically organized according to the four basic food-for-thought groups, Eat These Words contains easy-to-digest for every part of the tortured processes we call diet, exercise, and food. It begins by commiserating with your frustration. Like any good book on diet and exercise, it provides timeless advice on Energy Conservation. For those nagging moments of remorse after polishing off the entire chocolate cake by yourself, there are quotes to induce the appropriate shame. But most of all, for the inevitable submission to the pure joys of food, there are expressions of Love.
The next time you think you're the only person who obsesses over the struggle with food, take comfort in the words of Virginia Woolf, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Bertolt Brecht, Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and many others. To satisfy all your cravings, simply Eat These Words.
My Review: Chuckles, smiles, snerks, and a belly laugh or two. The collection is 24 years old and feels fresh as the proverbial daisy. I picked this up for the heck of it, needing something that was unchallenging and amusing.
BookMooch and Paperback Swap are the way to go getting it into your library. Paying anything close to jacket price of $12.95 is not warranted.
Laugh on!
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