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  <title><![CDATA[It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything]]></title>
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  <default-description>In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl&amp;#8212;into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called &amp;#8220;turducken.&amp;#8221; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;It Must&amp;#8217;ve Been Something I Ate&lt;/b&gt; finds Steingarten testing the virtues of chocolate and gourmet salts; debunking the mythology of lactose intolerance and Chinese Food Syndrome; roasting marrow bones for his dog , and offering recipes for everything from lobster rolls to gratin dauphinois.  The result is one of those rare books that are simultaneously mouth-watering and side-splitting.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2002</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pass-along from my mom, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything" title="It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything">It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything</a> is an amusing collection of food-related essays.<br/><br/>Steingarten is a food critic for Vogue; however, in this collection, he focuses more on the history of certain dishes and foodstuffs, as opp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5702679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It Must Have Been Something I Ate is another typical case of me being left unattended in a book store. It, too, was on the bargain table. It had a dog on the cover, who is looking into a bowl with a swimming man inside. <br/>I had to buy it.<br/><br/>What it is about? Jeffrey Steingarten is food ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3077213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great - it can't top Steingarten's &quot;The Man Who Ate Everything&quot; but it's still excellent.  I felt like I adored every story in the first book while in this one, there's a few stories I started and then skipped, such as his ode to phen-fen.  Just didn't grab me.<br/><br/>But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69662074">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those who don't know him, the author, Jeffrey Steingarten, is a famous food writer for Vogue magazine and a frequent judge on Iron Chef America.  On Iron Chef, Steingarten is famous for his sarcasm and dry wit, and all of this comes through in this book.  The book is a compilation of the author'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44558709">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essays on food from Vogue's food critic.  Some of them are more interesting than others, but all are entertaining and educational. The recipes he includes are hilarious, mainly because I am not the type who enjoys cooking and several of them are five pages long and take three days to prepare.  I do ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38405682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously, I can't stand the guy on Iron Chef, even though I typically agree with his comments.  The way he clutches his fork...<br/><br/>It was with much reservation that I started reading this book...and was shocked when I couldn't stop reading it!  The first story about fishing for bluefin tuna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52054669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, how I love Jeffrey Steingarten! A thoroughly enjoyable read, inspired by eating his amazing recipe for potatoes gratin at my friend Marina's house.  Curmudgeonly, certainly, and very amusing on the subject of illegal diet pills (he loves 'em) but willing to admit his errors.  If you enjoy a know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42033175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still working on this, maybe, even though I've put it aside for now. <br/><br/>The intro was smart and funny and hooked me. He's much more adorable in writing than when I've seen him talking. Reading on, the cute continues, along with a lot of well-researched information. It's easy to become i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1420856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steingarten continues to be an entertaining writer with vast food knowledge and a true passion for good eating.  This collection of essays and collumns seems to skew more towards exotic food and locales than his earlier book, &quot;The Man Who Ate Everything.&quot;  I enjoyed the former more than th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54372251">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay Sharon you do have a point about reading books about food. There were a lot of chapters on meat that I didn't really get into but still enjoyed. I liked the south of the border, coffee Thai and sweets chapters the best.  Karen I think you'd enjoy if you want me to send you the book let me know.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73509532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely adored this book. With a subtle sense of humor, Steingarten dives into the hidden world beneath popular recipes and restuarants. I could not stop laughing the entire book and my new life's ambition is to become the food editor at Vogue. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steingarten is probably the best food writer around . . . this book is funny as hell, and will make you hungry as you read the descriptions of all the food he is eating]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steingarten is my favorite food writer.  His willingness to try anything once, even the garnish on an airline food tray, gives him ammunition for his wonderful wit.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty fun, informative. easy to read because chapters are short essays, good information along with entertaining anecdotes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoy &quot;foodie&quot; writing, definitely check this guy out - he is outrageous and makes me laugh right out loud! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought it because I swear by his Neopolitan-American Pizza Crust recipe.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It Must&#039;ve Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten (2003)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Turns out that one Steingarten book was all I could do.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's kind of cheating to read about food, but where Jeffery Steingarten is concerned, it's never just about food.  <br/>It's also cheating a little to read this book before his first collection, The Man Who Ate Everything, because as with all great food writers, you do have entry into his life, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48602499">more...</a>]]></body>
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