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Pros
Tia makes a deal with the devil in exchange for a secret job with the new york times renowned food critic. Tia's life becomes a train wreck that you just can't look away from. Food * shows the author's ability to develop characters that are flawed, ye... Read More
It takes a great writer to draw you in with whimsical stories of freshly baked bread and fragrant fruit compotes and the like. The food leaps off the page--so vividly that i could picture each dish she described--and almost smell and taste them too. T... Read More
Food * is about finding oneself in a new city while following your dreams. The writing in this book is superb, for a debut author jessica tom delivers an amazing story with little bits of foo-word-* mixed in all over it.
It is a good story about a young woman in nyc who dares to be a food critic. I am fascinated by the food industry in big cities. It also evokes some elements of the industrial novel which john cawelti has labeled the ‘social melodrama’.
Cons
By the end, i got the sense that it was written mostly in hopes of being optioned into a movie. Tom's grasp of the culinary inner-workings of the restaurant world is laughable.
The rub is that she is she is sworn to secrecy.
Highlights
Quality
Great first novel from a woman very familiar with the restaurant scene in new york
And working with the critic means more than just getting into the hottest new restaurants in new york city
My other favorite book of the year was crazy rich asians the style and the quality of writing are a bit similar
I totally agree with the review the devil wears prada goes gourmet
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It also evokes a conventional view of nyc as a hellishlycompetitive and challenging environment that—at just the right moments—... Read More
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I received an earc copy of the title from the publisher via edelweiss for purpose of honest review
The author also appeared on chef vs
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Tia loses her cookies and is discovered by incognito food critic michael saltz
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Excessively self conscious “food whore” reads like another new york dreamsgoneawry story while the constant listing of designers clutters up the beautiful descriptions of menu items and distracts from the narrative
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The more they participate in their deception the less you pity tia and end up disliking them both for their hunger for notoriety
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The whole premise here is a bit outrageous and somewhat unbelievable but this is fiction after all
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Only tias not getting credit for them
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Some of the secondary characters like her roommates seem like filler
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She’s unable to share this latest coup with anyone not her roommates her boyfriend or even her parents even as the decisions she’s made and the secrecy she agreed to are taking a toll
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Tia’s decisions aren’t always good ones being so focused on one goal led her into trouble more than once and it took some time for her to realize that her deal just may have been more than she bargained for
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