Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table
by Linda Ellerbee
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Author: Linda EllerbeeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-02
ISBN: 0425209733
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Book Review: Travel, Food, Fun, Friends, Lovers, and Misadventures
Summary: 5 Stars
Ellerbee writes just the way she speaks, and when you read Take Big Bites, you feel like she's talking directly to you. This is a book that you never want to end. It's a memoir about travel and food and friends and lovers and misadventures. She has done it all. Most of the time, she travels alone. She prefers that so she's forced to talk to the people where she's visiting. Occasionally, she goes with a family member or friend to revisit a place from their past. She's been to some places that you've never heard of but want to go to after she describes them.
"Our travels are not always the voyages of discovery we say we seek, but rituals of reassurance," she writes. What fun!
When Ellerbee gets together with her friends, she reminds us that, to women, girlfriends are not a luxury, they are a healthy necessity. They sit around and talk-talk-talk, and even though they are now women, they feel like girls again.
Her holidays will remind you of your own and others when she describes how despite tradition, love, hope, passing time and sweet memories, the holidays will always be messy.
She tells us about becoming a grandmother and says she will be available, understanding, and weird because as a mother she was mostly weird. She plans to take her grandchildren places and show them things and give them wings. We all wish we had a mother/grandmother like that. I especially related when she talked about giving her children cookie dough to eat. My girls still keep a roll of cookie dough in the refrigerator for emergency sugar fixes. And the food... She makes it part of every story, and it all sounds so good. She even provides recipes.
One delightful thing the author tells us (and she tells us quite a lot) is that, "Sometimes in life, if you're lucky, you are where you most want to be at that moment." And wouldn't we all like to do that at least once.
by Doris Anne Roop-Benner
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
Summary of Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table
Laugh-out-loud funny and salt-of-the-earth wise, celebrated journalist and producer Linda Ellerbee leads us on a gastronomic journey from Italy to Afghanistan, Mexico to Massachusetts, with some very entertaining detours along the way-plus photos and recipes.General Books
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