SOCIAL SCIENCES

Driving Hungry

by Layne Mosler
Pantheon. 2015. 320p. ISBN 9781101870310. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9780345802682. TRAV
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"Food is a wonderful way to see the world. Hop online and have curry delivered or hop in a cab and ask the driver where to get a great steak." So begins this blog-to-book title, by food journalist and blogger (taxigourmet.com) Mosler, whose journey starts in Buenos Aires, where the author asks her taxi driver to take her to his favorite eatery, and jumps back and forth across time and place (including New York, where she drives a cab herself, and Berlin), in search of the perfect bite. This tome could fit easily in with Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, but may actually have more in common with Tom Parker Bowles's The Year of Eating Dangerously because it shares the same adventurous spirit. One sour note: Mosler's peripatetic narrative will not work well for those who prefer a more linear description.
VERDICT A literary dim sum, this book provides nice little bites out of the author's life.
Reviewed by Stacie Williams, Lexington P.L., KY , Aug 01, 2015
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