Book description
It has taken Giles Coren a lifetime to master the art of eating out.
From a lonely childhood spent in restaurant car parks, peering in at
a magical world of chickens in baskets and butter in little foil
squares, to belching his way through fifty pointless manifestations of
nitrogen-chilled excreta at 'the best restaurant in the world', to the
sticky corner of Bangkok's Chinatown where he sat his own baby
daughter down in front of her first jellied iguana foot and was
genuinely surprised when she didn't like it, Coren has experienced
pretty much everything a restaurant can throw at you, and thrown it
right back. Or at least caught it, sniffed it, and bagged it up for later.
Bad waiters, bum tables, little rip-offs, big cons, old fish, cheap
meat, yesterday's soup and tomorrow's gastroenteritis... Coren tells
you how to avoid the lot, and even come out of it with free champagne
and a dish named after you by way of apology.
It doesn't matter if it's fish and chips, takeaway pizza, a medieval
banquet with Sue Perkins or a slap-up nosh at the Hotel de Posh, there
is always a right way and wrong way to do it. How to Eat Out is
a bit of both.
Giles Coren is a renowned columnist and restaurant critic for
The Times
and has contributed to various publications including the
Independent on Sunday
,
Tatler
and
GQ
. He was named Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the British Press
Awards in 2005. He appeared on
The F Word
as a correspondent, and has presented several programmes, including
Animal Pharm
and
The Movie Lounge
. He currently co-stars with Sue Perkins in
The Supersizes Go...
series for the BBC. His first novel,
Winkler
, was published in 2005.
