Born Round
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater Frank Bruni,
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
ISBN: 1594202311
DDC: 362.19685260092
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-08-20
Summary:
The New York Times restaurant critic’s heartbreaking and hilarious
account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of
wrestling with his weight Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in
stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry. He grew up in
a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where meals
were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one of
his foremost qualifications for his future career: an epic, outsize
appetite for food. But his relationship with eating was tricky, and
his difficulties with managing it began early. When he was named the
restaurant critic for the New York Times in 2004, he knew enough to
be nervous. He would be performing one of the most closely watched
tasks in the epicurean universe; a bumpy ride was inevitable,
especially for someone whose writing beforehand had focused on
politics, presidential campaigns, and the Pope. But as he tackled his
new role as one of the most loved and hated tastemakers in the New
York restaurant world, he also had to make sense of a decades-long
love-hate affair with food, which had been his enemy as well as his
friend. Now he’d have to face down this enemy at meal after indulgent
meal. His Italian grandmother had often said, “Born round, you don’t
die square.” Would he fall back into his worst old habits? Or had he
established a truce with the food on his plate? In tracing the highly
unusual path Bruni traveled to become a restaurant critic, Born Round
tells the captivating story of an unpredictable journalistic odyssey
and provides an unflinching account of one person’s tumultuous, often
painful lifelong struggle with his weight. How does a committed eater
embrace food without being undone by it? Born Round will speak to
every hungry hedonist who has ever had to rein in an appetite to
avoid letting out a waistband, and it will delight anyone interested
in matters of family, matters of the heart, and the big role food
plays in both.
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