Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

If you haven't seen Jim Gaffigan's bit on Hot Pockets, I want to know where you live. Is it under a rock? It's a comedic staple and you have to watch it right now. Go and look it up. I'll wait.

I think it's so funny and this book was no different. He goes to talk about food and makes observations about America and our eating habits. It's all funny because it's all really true. We just either never noticed it or never said it aloud.

I picked up this book because I needed something light to read while reading a dark and disturbing book and it did the trick. This is an easy read. The chapters are super short and you don't have to put much thought into it. This would be a great gift to give dad for Father's Day!

You can pick up this book for $11.58. This is also a great book to bring to the beach, but you've been warned! It will make you hungry.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I’m convinced that anyone who doesn’t like Mexican food is a psychopath.”

• “There’s an old Weight Watchers saying: 'Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.' I for one can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels. Many of them are two-word phrases that end with cheese (Cheddar cheese, blue cheese, grilled cheese)."

• “Hot dogs are like strippers, really. Nobody wants to know the backstory. We don't want to think about how they came to be in their present form of employment. "Well, when I was twelve, my stepfather.." "Not interested! Put some mustard on that.”

• “It would be embarrassing trying to explain what an appetizer is to someone from a starving country. “Yeah, the appetizer—that’s the food we eat before we have our food. No, no, you’re thinking of dessert—that’s food we have after we have our food. We eat tons of food. Sometimes there’s so much we just stick it in a bag and bring it home. Then we throw it out the next day. Maybe give it to the dog.”