I've got a new favorite author, and I'm loving this book. The author is Steve Almond and the book is Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. Clicking on the title of this blog will take you to Amazon.com where you can read the reviews and peek at the cover.
Let me share with you some of Almond's delicious prose:
"I suppose I was aware, in an abstract way, that there were men and women upon this earth who served in this capacity, as chocolate engineers. In the same way that I was aware that there are job titles out there such as bacon taster and sex surogate, which is to say, job titles that make me want to weep over my own appointed lot in life."
The book is falsely labelled and errantly stocked as a COOKING book. It is everything BUT cooking. It is history, it is nostalgia, it is self-help, it is outrageously funny, and it is extremely well written. I so look forward each evening to sitting down and "enrobing" (a candy confectioners term for the process of covering a candy bar in chocolate) myself in Almond's words.
I highly recommend this book.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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