Coincidences enliven daily life. Consider these three new, very different food books that happen to be lined up currently on bookstore shelves:
“Eat This Book” (Potter, $32.50), by television chef Tyler Florence. It’s a bright, well-flavored cookbook drawing on ideas from global cuisines, with some 150 recipes for the home cook, illustrated with color photos.
“Don’t Eat This Book!” (Putnam, $21.95), by Morgan Spurlock, producer-director-star of the Oscar-nominated movie documentary “Super Size Me.” Subtitled “Fast Food and the Supersizing of America,” it further explores in Spurlock’s breezy tone what he sees as the serious dangers of the unhealthy food Americans find all too temptingly around them.
“Read It and Eat” (Hudson Street Press, $19.95), by Sarah Gardner: It’s a month-to-month guide to “scintillating book-club selections and mouthwatering menus,” which teams suggestions for book-club choices, topics for discussion and recipes for feeding the literary gathering.
– The Associated Press
