home

Add Review, Blurb, Quote

Add

Activity

Activity

Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.

This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

43 users recently

23 users recently

73 users recently

24 users recently

21 users recently

38 users recently

Trending Books

Untitled

Untitled

54 users recently

Zorrie

Laird Hunt

14 users recently

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters

11 users recently

Just for the Summer

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez

10 users recently

The Familiar

The Familiar: A richly imagined, spellbinding new novel from the number one bestselling author of Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo

16 users recently

About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources

The Devil's Picnic

The Devil's Picnic: Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink | Taras Grescoe

2 posts | 1 read

An investigation into what thrills us, what terrifies us, and what would make us travel ten thousand miles and evade the local authorities, The Devil's Picnic is a delicious and compelling expedition into the heart of vice and desire. Taras Grescoe is the author of two books, one of which, Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec, was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Award and was a national bestseller in Canada. His work appears in major publications all over the US, the UK and Canada. "Vivid and entertaining."-New York Times "[Grescoe] spends a year in seven countries, seeking out such delicacies as Epoisses cheese, which smells so bad it's said to have been banned from the Paris Metro; the author writes fondly that it makes 'Gorgonzola smell like Velveeta.'...He eats bulls' testicles in Madrid and visits an absinthe distillery in Switzerland. You feel hung over just reading the thing-guilty, implicated and strangely hungry."-Los Angeles Times Also available: HC ISBN: 1-58234-429-9 ISBN-13 978-1-58234-429-4 $24.95

Amazon

Indiebound

Barnes and Noble

WorldCat

Goodreads

LibraryThing

blurb

The Devil's Picnic: Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink | Taras Grescoe

1. The Grand Canyon. I've never been there and it's on my bucket list to see before I die.
2. I don't want to seem antisocial, but after the week I've had, I'd prefer to go alone, to absorb the peace and quiet.
3. Jameson Irish Whiskey, Coke, ice, fried chicken, potato salad, deviled eggs and cheesecake.
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94
Thank you @TheRiehlDeal for the tag.

KathyWheeler Sometimes you just need to be alone. Yesterday, I had had too much exposure to too many people; when I got home, I told my husband and daughter that then went to my room and closed the door. Even one more person was just too much for me. 2y

RamsFan1963 @KathyWheeler Ever since my store began its store closing sales, I've been majorly stressed. I'm so looking forward to having this weekend off, just in time for @Andrew65 #20in4 readathon. 2y

Andrew65 Hope the reading helps you de-stress at least a little. 2y

KathyWheeler @RamsFan1963 I‘m sorry you‘ve been so stressed. I do hope the readathon helps with that. 2y

Nute I‘ve had those type of days, when ‘me time‘ needs to be ‘alone time.‘ There‘s definitely nothing wrong with that! Enjoy this long weekend, Kevin!🙂 2y

45 likes5 comments

review

FeastingOnFiction

Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit | Taras Grescoe

Meh

so-so

I enjoyed learning the sordid history of some of the worlds' most controversial, and arguably delicious foods, but I could have done with less political commentary. Frescoes really knows how to tease the reader and draw them in, but he lost me when he went from ardent foodie to soapbox preacher.