false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg 6449638 7 <b>The<i> New York Times</i> restaurant critic’s heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of wrestling with his weight</b><br><br> Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry. He grew up in a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where meals were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one of his foremost qualifications for his future career: an epic, outsize appetite for food. But his relationship with eating was tricky, and his difficulties with managing it began early. <br><br> When he was named the restaurant critic for the <i>New York Times</i> in 2004, he knew enough to be nervous. He would be performing one of the most closely watched tasks in the epicurean universe; a bumpy ride was inevitable, especially for someone whose writing beforehand had focused on politics, presidential campaigns, and the Pope. <br><br> But as he tackled his new role as one of the most loved and hated tastemakers in the New York restaurant world, he also had to make sense of a decades-long love-hate affair with food, which had been his enemy as well as his friend. Now he’d have to face down this enemy at meal after indulgent meal. His Italian grandmother had often said, “Born round, you don’t die square.” Would he fall back into his worst old habits? Or had he established a truce with the food on his plate? <br><br> In tracing the highly unusual path Bruni traveled to become a restaurant critic, <i>Born Round</i> tells the captivating story of an unpredictable journalistic odyssey and provides an unflinching account of one person’s tumultuous, often painful lifelong struggle with his weight. How does a committed eater embrace food without being undone by it? <i>Born Round</i> will speak to every hungry hedonist who has ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband, and it will delight anyone interested in matters of family, matters of the heart, and the big role food plays in both. <br> 6639750 20 8 2009 Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater total:310|5:25|4:84|3:55|2:28|1:3| 310 1113 887 112 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 4 1 false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:25:02 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 05:09:09 -0700 2009 New York Times food critic Frank Bruni just published this book on his lifelong destructive and complex relationship towards food. Given my lifelong destructive and complex relationship towards The New York Times, I thought I'd check it out.

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I saw so much of myself in him, in his writing, and in h...more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 4 1 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:27:57 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 22:14:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 3 0 false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 17:21:15 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 07:47:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 2 1 false Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 10:33:28 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 11:28:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 3 0 false Tue Aug 18 13:37:59 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 13:05:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 4 1 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 14:39:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 14:57:46 -0800 2009 Once
As a lifelong dieter and craving wrangler myself, I found many aspects--though thankful...more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 4 0 false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:51:52 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:04:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 5 1 false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 21:48:02 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:59:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 5 3 false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:20:22 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:24:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 2 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 10:35:23 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 10:39:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 5 0 false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 05:15:25 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 05:18:43 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 3 1 false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:25:04 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 08:27:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 4 0 false Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 16:48:15 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 16:54:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 2 1 false Thu Oct 08 17:55:26 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 18:00:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 2 0 false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 09 10:50:41 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:46:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 5 0 false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 21:53:30 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:42:32 -0700 2009
"As I honestly reflected back on all the eating I’d done – all the overeating I’d done– I had to recognize that I...more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 3 1 false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:53:09 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 08:02:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6449638 1594202311 9781594202315 308 111 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255701160m/6449638.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449638-born-round 3 1 false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:20:28 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:49:11 -0800 2009 It's really more about a guy and his eating disorders and his neuroses and whining about his lack of a love life

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