A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of the globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and well known food critics.

As the son of a diplomat developing up in locations like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the opportunity to turn into a picky eater. Living, vacationing, and eating in a few of the most far-flung locations all over the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of ethnicities and cuisines that resulted in some revelations which would about The Publication of Consuming: Adventures in Professional Gluttony confirm important in his future career being a meals critic. In Tokyo, for example-“some sort of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking food”-he learned that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly poor meal is way better than a good one.’

From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy roads of Moscow, Platt takes us all over the world, re-tracing the actions of a distinctive, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glance into a lifestyle which has intertwined meals and travel in fascinating and unexpected methods, The Reserve of Eating is definitely a wonderful and sumptuous trip that’s also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he places it, “a specialist glutton.”