Jim Gaffigan’s Food: A Love Story Is the Perfect Gift for Dads, Comedy Fans, and Anyone Who Enjoys Eating
Jim Gaffigan wants you to know he’s not a foodie. The comedian and author of New York Times bestseller Dad Is Fat is a self-proclaimed “eatie”—and he’s taken his affinity for food to hilarious new heights in his new book Food: A Love Story. In this collection of food-related essays, Gaffigan oscillates between self-deprecation and incisive observation as he celebrates his affection for all things edible with the ebullience of a kid who has just discovered ice cream.
Food: A Love Story
Hardcover $26.00
Food: A Love Story
By Jim Gaffigan
Hardcover $26.00
“I hope at one point some really important person sat the inventor of guacamole down and told him or her, ‘You are a great human. We thank you for your contribution to our planet.'”
Fans of Dad Is Fat will be pleased to hear that Gaffigan still mines comedy from the utter chaos of life as a father of five, but this book’s true subject is his obsession with eating. His comprehensive culinary journey provides readers with a soup-to-nuts review of basically every type of food you can think of (and yes, that includes Hot Pockets).
“I find it humorous that adults have found a way to use coffee shops as a means to not look ridiculous by walking around in broad daylight with a huge cup of ice cream with a straw in it. ‘It’s a Frappuccino! I’m an adult!'”
Food‘s brisk, super-digestible essays have an all-inclusive, everyman humor that can be enjoyed anywhere, anytime. It’s the rare book that can be appreciated by anyone—even juice-cleansing types who want to see what they’re missing. We could recommend this book to a liberal best friend, a conservative father, or an office Secret Santa, and be confident they’d all thoroughly enjoy Gaffigan’s latest assortment of hilarious musings.
“I hope at one point some really important person sat the inventor of guacamole down and told him or her, ‘You are a great human. We thank you for your contribution to our planet.'”
Fans of Dad Is Fat will be pleased to hear that Gaffigan still mines comedy from the utter chaos of life as a father of five, but this book’s true subject is his obsession with eating. His comprehensive culinary journey provides readers with a soup-to-nuts review of basically every type of food you can think of (and yes, that includes Hot Pockets).
“I find it humorous that adults have found a way to use coffee shops as a means to not look ridiculous by walking around in broad daylight with a huge cup of ice cream with a straw in it. ‘It’s a Frappuccino! I’m an adult!'”
Food‘s brisk, super-digestible essays have an all-inclusive, everyman humor that can be enjoyed anywhere, anytime. It’s the rare book that can be appreciated by anyone—even juice-cleansing types who want to see what they’re missing. We could recommend this book to a liberal best friend, a conservative father, or an office Secret Santa, and be confident they’d all thoroughly enjoy Gaffigan’s latest assortment of hilarious musings.
Dad is Fat
Paperback $15.99
Dad is Fat
By Jim Gaffigan
Paperback $15.99
“Announcing you ate kale is like the bringing-up-the-SAT-score of vegetables. Nobody asks, but annoying people find a way to work it into a conversation.”
Gaffigan is perhaps at his very best when he critiques food he dislikes. He provides his one-of-a-kind point of view on such atrocities as oatmeal (“Nothing like starting off the day eating the same thing Oliver ate before he started singing the song where he and the other orphans were fantasizing about real food”), grits (“If you like the taste of biscuits and gravy but without the taste of biscuits and gravy, then you’ll love our man-made wet sand”), and shellfish (“I have a rule that if food looks like something that would crawl out from under a refrigerator, I don’t put it in my mouth”).
“Chopsticks are fun, but I’d rather eat than play Operation.”
In a society seemingly obsessed with the perils of overconsumption, Gaffigan unabashedly celebrates the seemingly forgotten notion that food can be fun. He’s the voice of the perpetually hungry. The devil on the shoulder of your diet. The pied piper of questionable dietary habits. After reading his immensely enjoyable Food: A Love Story, you’ll cheerfully follow him to any buffet in town.
“Announcing you ate kale is like the bringing-up-the-SAT-score of vegetables. Nobody asks, but annoying people find a way to work it into a conversation.”
Gaffigan is perhaps at his very best when he critiques food he dislikes. He provides his one-of-a-kind point of view on such atrocities as oatmeal (“Nothing like starting off the day eating the same thing Oliver ate before he started singing the song where he and the other orphans were fantasizing about real food”), grits (“If you like the taste of biscuits and gravy but without the taste of biscuits and gravy, then you’ll love our man-made wet sand”), and shellfish (“I have a rule that if food looks like something that would crawl out from under a refrigerator, I don’t put it in my mouth”).
“Chopsticks are fun, but I’d rather eat than play Operation.”
In a society seemingly obsessed with the perils of overconsumption, Gaffigan unabashedly celebrates the seemingly forgotten notion that food can be fun. He’s the voice of the perpetually hungry. The devil on the shoulder of your diet. The pied piper of questionable dietary habits. After reading his immensely enjoyable Food: A Love Story, you’ll cheerfully follow him to any buffet in town.