Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

"Majumdar writes like a dream and eats like a pig. It's a killer combination. "Eat My Globe" is a very funny, very hungry book, much like its author." -- Jay Rayner, author of "The Man who Ate The World"""Eat My Globe" is part travelogue, part personal memoir, part food journal, and part performance art, as Simon Majumdar travels the planet and consumes the full spectrum of cuisine -- from the haute to the horrifying -- establishing himself as an Indiana Jones for the foodie set." -- Andrew more >>

"Majumdar writes like a dream and eats like a pig. It's a killer combination. "Eat My Globe" is a very funny, very hungry book, much like its author." -- Jay Rayner, author of "The Man who Ate The World"""Eat My Globe" is part travelogue, part personal memoir, part food journal, and part performance art, as Simon Majumdar travels the planet and consumes the full spectrum of cuisine -- from the haute to the horrifying -- establishing himself as an Indiana Jones for the foodie set." -- Andrew Friedman, co-editor of "Don't Try This At Home""Simon adores pulled pork, yet pulls no punches in this passionate, refreshingly honest and delicious journey. Traveling with him on his gut-busting world tour is a rollicking good time. By the end, you'll want to to sit with him over a few martinis to plot a meal, even if it's just some hoofed animal's meat on a stick in a developing country. Read only with a well-stocked fridge; you'll get hungry." -- Kathleen Flinn, author of T"he Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry""The dangerously obsessive, staggeringly knowledgeable, provocative and opinionated Simon Majumdar knows his shit. No question about it. I don't always agree with him but he's always worth listening to. Many would kill to have eaten the meals in their lifetimes that Majumdar has consumed in a single year -- and he has an endearingly soft spot for the grimiest of lowlife pubs. Plus -- the bastard can write." -- Anthony Bourdain, author of "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly"""Eat My Globe" is a culinary tour de force that mixes an irrepressible enthusiasm for the world of food with a celebration of the people who prepare it. Majumdar is without question the world's most enthusiastic gourmet. His love of eatingAor rather feastingAis so infectious that we never turned a page without feeling an overwhelming urge to eat great food, roam the Earth, and read another page." -- Andrew Rimas and Evan Fraser, authors of "BEEF: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World"With the same incisive wit and nose for quality as Anthony Bourdain, Majumdar--an internationally popular food savant and blogger--chronicles his yearlong journey around the world in search of everything delicious, odd, and oddly delicious. 20 b&w photos.When Simon Majumdar hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stable but uninspiring desk job. As he wondered how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said: Go everywhere, eat everything. With that, he had found his mission -- a yearlong search for the delicious, and curious, and the curiously delicious, which he names "Eat My Globe" and memorably chronicles in these pages.

In Majumdar's world, food is everything. Like every member of his family, he has a savant's memory for meals, with instant recall of dishes eaten decades before. Simon's unstoppable wit and passion for all things edible (especially those things that once had eyes, and a face, and a mom and a pop) makes this an armchair traveler's and foodie's delight -- Majumdar does all the heavy lifting, eats the heavy foods (and suffers the weighty consequences), so you don't have to. He jets to thirty countries in just over twelve months, diving mouth-first into local cuisines and cultures as different as those of Japan and Iceland. His journey takes him from China, where he consumes one of his "Top Ten Worst Eats," stir-fried rat, to the United States, where he glories in our greatest sandwiches: the delectable treasures of Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan, BBQ in Kansas and Texas, the still-rich po' boys of post-Katrina New Orleans.

The meat of the story -- besides the peerless ham in Spain, the celebrated steaks of Argentina, the best of Munich's wursts as well as their descendants, the famous hot dogs of Chicago -- is the friends that Simon makes as he eats. They are as passionate about food as he is and are eager to welcome him << less