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The Man Who Ate The World By Jay Rayner - Headline Review 0 copies for sale
3.0 (1 Reviews) Category: Non Fiction Subategory: Title: The Man Who Ate The World Author: Jay Rayner Publisher: Headline Review First Published: 2008 First Reviewed By: Raphaelthegromit Rating Trend Rating Distribution  5 stars 0% 4 stars 0% 3 stars 100% 2 stars 0% 1 star 0%	Synopsis: The Man Who Ate The World Rayner lives out every foodie’s fantasy: to dine in the world’s best restaurants, wolfing down master chefs’ most prized products, quaffing the finest vintages, ordering the rarest and most expensive dishes menus can offer, luxuriating in sumptuous surroundings as staff hover solicitously. A London restaurant critic, Rayner documents the capital’s ascent from the culinary embarrassment of fish-and-chips to enthronement as one of the world’s gastronomic destinations. He jets to arid Las Vegas, where he finds just how eagerly chefs violate the currently sacred mantra of locally produced ingredients for the golden opportunity to grab tourist dollars. He finds similar intersections of greed and gluttony in Dubai and Moscow, where expense tends to measure quality. He caps his worldwide quest with a week of unabashed overeating in Paris, visiting both new and classic celebrated Parisian restaurants till even his estimable constitution buckles under the caloric load. 0 copies of this book for sale	View / Add Photos (1) new! buy and sell new& used books using paypal
Reader's Reviews For The Man Who Ate The World By Jay Rayner Miserable sod Raphaelthegromit 3.0 (16.03.2010) I loved the first half of this book, dry wit, a cross continent food buffet with no expense spared, with little margin for error on the part of the chefs in the cusine dock of judge Rayner. From there on the choice of restaurants (bar the secret sushi bars of japan) become all too familiar. I have never dined in a Michelin star restaurant but with his similar choice of outlets and similar dishes from venue to venue it seems equally pointless as comparing one mcdonalds to the next. He scoffs the same routine of posh nosh in each episode, and then, brace yourself, we are introduced to 'clare' his mother. I did not put two and two together until then, as son of the 80's uk heavey weight agony aunt champ, we have to endure a long period two thirds of the way through the book, all about her, as if we didn't already get enough of her as kids, here is the final shot to complete your O.D. It snot fiar to take a swing at anyone's mother but I can't see what it has to do with pinning the best meal in the world. Nevertheless, for the best part the book is entertaining and well written, it just would have been a little less of a chore if he didn't have to end every experience, even the best meal, with a negative slant.    © copyright kwango.co.za www.kwango.co.za   Website by Gin And Tonic www.ginandtonic.co.za