Posts Tagged ‘book review’
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ok, so I’m fully aware that everyone and their mother has either read or at least heard of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. In case you’ve been living under a rock though, it’s about a woman who goes on a sort of spiritual journey where she attempts to balance worldly pleasure and “divine transcendence” in three stops: indulging in Italy, engaging in devotion in India, and finding the balance between the two in Indonesia. I saw a preview to the soon-to-be-released movie (August 13th to be exact) based on Gilbert’s story starring Julia Roberts, and it was then that I decided to pick up the book.
Gilbert’s writing is so entertaining, well-researched and hilariously funny at times (“My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing – Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah“). Maybe since I’m a writer, I look for different things when I read a book, but I definitely came across some passages where I just utterly devoured her metaphors and details. Here’s one I really enjoyed, where she describes best pizza she ever had in Italy (naturally, in the birthplace of pizza, Naples):
Last minute Valentine’s Idea: Cook a Sexy Meal
If you dropped the ball on making dinner reservations for Valentine’s Day, here’s some food for thought: try cooking a meal. But not just any meal – a sensual recipe from Fork Me, Spoon Me by Aphrodisiac Food and Wine Expert, Amy Reiley.
Fork Me, Spoon Me by Amy Reiley
Reiley, who’s based in LA, had been researching and writing aphrodisiacs for years before she decided to come out with a cookbook with simple recipes to get people in the mood. She expertly weaves her own experience with different mood-enhancing foods with their history and background and wow, did I learn an interesting tidbit or two about a myriad aphrodisiacs…for example, did you know:
