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Title: Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love by Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0-14-024452-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW! Why is this book not a best seller?
Comment: I can?t believe I?m only the 2nd person to review this book! Bob Shacochis was an instructor at a writing conference I attended about 5 yrs ago in Santa Fe. He was sexy, charming, dangerous, engaging, a great reader/teacher ? and I bought this book because the woman I was sharing a room with had the major hots for him and was too shy to buy it and ask for him to sign it herself.
It?s absolutely wonderful, laugh out lout funny, provocative, and the recipes sound totally yummy.
When asked to write a regular food column by GQ magazine, Shacochis was told he could write ?anything as long as you tag a recipe onto the end.'' He wrote wickedly honest autobiographical anecdotes on his life with his Miss F, his ?common-law wife of 17 yrs.? Shacochis equates food with sex in outrageous examples that I don?t want to quote for fear of spoiling the pleasure for new readers.
Do NOT buy this if you?re looking for a cookbook. Many of the recipes are written like essays, and Shacochis clearly assumes a certain comfort in his readers with not only the kitchen but also the BBQ, the hibachi, the Coleman stove, the open fire on a beach, and strange little kitchen gadgets in Italy.
But whatever. This is one thoroughly enjoyable book. Even if you never intend to use a single recipe from within its pages, buy it just for the joy of reading parts of it aloud to your spouse in bed at night. Who knows? It may lead to more than the intention to cook up some gumbo.
Rating: 5
Summary: A stylish guide to satisfying desires, culinary & romantic.
Comment: Culled from his columns for GQ magazine, this collection deals with many kinds of appetite, though it all starts with food: 75 recipes intertwined with Shacochis' ruminations on love, life, and the style with which one should conduct both. Insightful & hilarious, this book will whet your palate & provide the recipes which will quench your hunger, all the while entertaining you with cautionary tales of the author's own wayward slouchings toward the title state: Domesticity with his soul-mate, Miss F. From meatloaf to ceviche, from artful teasings to true, commingled love, let Shocochis be your guide. You'll at least get a memorable meal out of it
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Title: Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0140083014 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0140248951 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Swimming in the Volcano: A Novel by Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0140236589 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times by Sara Nickles, Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0811807843 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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