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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first chapter of Tom Parker Bowles The Year of Eating Dangerously, thenI gave it up. I hardly ever give up books but I do wonder if TPB hadn't been the son of Camilla Parker Bowles who is now married to the future King of England he would he even have got it published.  The first chapter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42732864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Putting his mouth where his journalism is, British food writer Tom Parker Bowles ate his way across the world, sampling the most gut-churning victuals he could find and living to tell the tale.<br/><br/>Of course, he heads to the usual suspects like China (for smelly tofu, sea slug, millipedes, lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48078078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quirky and interesting volume. . . .Tom Parker Bowles takes time out of his life to search out &quot;extreme food,&quot; to engage in culinary adventures. In his words, this book is about (page xx) &quot;. . .a fascination with the world's diverse cuisines.&quot; He (page xx) &quot;wanted to sampl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72825911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy is a pompous windbag.  I skipped major sections of this book due to boredom.   This book could have been really interesting.  He went to nine different areas around the world and ate the local food.  I usually enjoy reading about what other countries think about their food and how they resp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27172813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was with a sense of profound relief that I finally set down Tom Parker Bowles' (yes, son of Camilla) book. I'd started reading this book some three months ago but it took me three tries to finish it, aggravated as I was by Parker Bowles' exaggerated style of writing and blustering bravado.  The m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40061032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't the most original book, but it was interesting and enjoyable.  Bowles, a British food writer and self-professed glutton, travels around the world to eat foods that are strange or 'dangerous' in some way.  He eats super-hot chile peppers in New Mexico, obscene amounts of barbeque in Tennes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36895159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dangerously is a relative term.  The underlying concept of this foodie's travelog has been done before and with great success.  It is therefore very hard to read this book without the inevitable comparisons between Parker Bowles &amp; Bourdain.  Ultimately, I think the latter is the more successful in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11498134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disclaimer:  I couldn’t even make it through the hot sauce chapter, which I believe is chapter 2 – maybe even chapter 1 but frankly I’m just too bored to pick the thing back up to check.  TPB’s old food column was always my favorite thing in Tatler (not to be read when hungry) and I looked f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72521002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book. But probably not interesting enough to pick up and not stop.To read this in one sitting can be rather taxing as the chapters are quite long. Too long!! <br/>I applaud his bravery, I wouldn't have attempted half of the things he listed. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At times I didn't know whether I'd bother finishing this one but it always managed to lift its interest level just in time. Sometimes funny, often gross but somehow reassuring view of food available in distant corners of the world.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bowles' pompous attitude, whiny attitude and disgusting gluttony really turned me off.  I couldn't even finish the book, though I did make it through most of it just so I could learn more about each of the country's food culture. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A interesting book that took me a little while to read as I kept picking it up reading it and putting it down again.  I did enjoy the chapter on Laos.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Parker Bowles is a funny man, but I wonder if this is better in small doses than sustained throughout a whole book.  I admire his strong feelings about food, but I feel as though I didn't get the whole structure or point to the &quot;year of eating dangerously&quot; theme.  Not to mention the co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18522629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parker-Bowles does not paint Americans in a pretty light. Maybe I am being sensitive, but every time he describes Americans the word obese, trashy, or uncultured is not far away... The basic premise of each chapter: Bowles has something gross/intense that he sets off to eat. He ends by realizing tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8417259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[not very well written, but very entertaining...the author (who is coincidentally the son of Camilla Parker Bowles, now wife of Prince Charles) is a food critic for a London newspaper.  he decides to travel the world eating &quot;dangerously&quot;.  some excellent fish-out-of-water vignettes when he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24451128">more...</a>]]></body>
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