A question from Loix

People who have any experience w/ addiction are sure to enjoy and draw valuable lessons from this book, even if they don't love food. But for a food addict like myself, this seems to have it all: food virtually brought to life (food porn in words, which can be just as good as the real thing w/o the calories), dead-on dissection of the rationalizing that precedes the binges and the guilt, regret and dejection that follow, the sometimes unpredictable relapses, etc. I plan to go back to this book every time I can feel one of these last looming. Thank you.

Of course, I also enjoyed other parts even if their focus was not on food, such as your loving descriptions of your family, esp. of the two most important people (both of whom happen to be women) in your life, and your interesting "run-in" with one of America's most influential restauranteurs. Many parts had me in stitches, and passers-by who failed to notice my earphones must have thought me crazy.

Yes, I was listening to the audiobook, which was narrated quite well, and unabridged (props for that, too). BTW, thanks for your earlier answer about my low-brow question about the audiobook.

I'd always liked your reviews, and loved the writing in this book, so much that I'm *almost* tempted to check out "Ambling into History", despite my utter lack of curiosity in its subject matter. But like Ebert says (or was it Siskel?) it's not a question of what, but rather of how, just like quality trumps quantity.