Eat My Words

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HarperCollins Australia, Aug 1, 2012 - Cooking - 256 pages
Best-selling author Mungo MaCallum's witty and incisive take on the world of celebrity chefs and crazy food fads is underpinned by a deep affection for really good food.
Mungo MacCallum started eating at an early age and just got back from lunch. In the meantime he has become one of Australia's wittiest and most incisive political journalists, written for everyone from the AUStRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW and SBS television to 2JJJ (now tRIPLE J) and PENtHOUSE. In this, his eighth book, he muses on epicurean pleasures past and savoured - from doing pre-dinner drinks and drugs with Leonard Cohen in the Greek isles to lunching with lobbyists in the fleshpots of Canberra, before escaping to reside, cook, and write some more, on the NSW north coast. this unlikely memoir of food and friends (and the occasional rant about tofu), is a call to arms for a no-nonsense approach to shopping, fast food, herbs, restaurants, camping and cooking real food. Enjoy this generous helping of Mungo's favourite recipes and anecdotes containing (be warned) offal, fat, sugar, cream and other delicious ingredients. this is Mungo as you've never read or dined with before. Bon appetit.
 

Contents

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Of Cohen and Opium Jones and Fish Pythagoras
Of the Paella of Albufera the Head Waiters Willy
Of Cherry Stoners Chinese Chestnuts
Of Pollies in the Trough Journos on the Piss
Meals without Meat
Of the Joys of Pudding and the Rigours of Travel
Of Fun Pickles and Unfunny Pickles Barbecues
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In a career spanning more than four decades, Mungo MacCallum has established himself as one of Australia’s most influential and entertaining political journalists, broadcasters and commentators. Beginning his career in 1965 with THE AUSTRALIAN, Mungo then joined the Canberra press gallery to witness John Gorton’s electoral victory over a promising young opposition leader called Gough. It was to be the first of many seminal events in Australian federal politics that Mungo reported on for national newspapers, local and online publications, as well as commercial and independent TV and radio networks. He is the author of eight books.

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