A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes

The Year Of Eating Dangerously

A hugely entertaining, vividly written account of Tom Parker Bowles culinary adventures in search of the world's most extreme and authentic foods

Tackles eating the weird and wonderful with a refreshing lack of machismo ... Like Redmond O'Hanlon at his maddened best

His descriptions of food are more often meant to turn your stomach than to encourage you to salivate, but they are nonetheless precisely worded, vivid and, in the case of dog soup, all too compelling ... I think Tom Parker Bowles is going to be a real writer with a feeling for food and drink

An engaging read ... Tom is such a likeable narrator, enthusiastic, open, candid and sweary. He also has a fine line in self-deprecation ... Most of all he loves his food and communicates that zeal really well

Inquisitive and acutely observed, it's an intimate, often humble account, full of warmth and honesty and underpinned with serious thought.  Laugh-out-loud funny too

Hilarious, macho and full of abstruse knowledge

A truly wonderful compendium. Almost immediately he makes you laugh. Then he makes you very hungry. More critically important, however, is how his delighted enthusiasm with food particularly pleases and urges you to read on

A food writer who not only has cojones but eats them too ... his deliciously descriptive writing includes thoughtful notes on conservation and animal welfare and some spicy, comic moment that really make the eyes water

His adventures are sometimes emetic but unfailingly fascinating

Tom Parker Bowles is a respected food critic, with high-profile columns in the Daily Mail's Night and Day magazine and Tatler . He is also the author of E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed.

Tired of the bland, processed pap served up in supermarkets and identikit restaurants across the UK, food writer Tom Parker Bowles embarks on a picaresque global odyssey in search of culinary extremes. 
 
The first to admit he has a timid tummy, Tom eschews the Michelin-starred restaurants he's grown accustomed to and seeks out the most authentic regional foods he can find. Full of trepidation, he puts his prejudices behind him and samples seahorse satay and millipede skewers in China, indulges in stomach-popping competitive eating in the States, and tentatively consumes the world's most poisonous fish in Japan. 
 
Brilliantly written and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is an eye-opening adventure in the company of a man who may not be brave, but is certainly curious. Tom's visceral account of his journey will make your mouth water ... most of the time.

Tom Parker Bowles

A richly enjoyable defence of the world's most unfairly derided cuisine

A Journey through the British and their Food

From West Country cider brewers to Yorkshire tripe dressers, Tom meets the punters and producers at the heart of our food traditions. He samples the very best of real English food: Bury black pudding, home-cured Wiltshire bacon and the planet's finest cheddar. 
 
But Full English is no paean to an imagined land where yokels sip ale together while chomping on pork pies. Tom's quest delves beneath the surface to unearth the real story behind our eating habits, and what the food of today says about us: organic heaven or mass-produced hell? 
 
Peppered with mouth-watering recipes and recommendations, Tom's pilgrimage maps out England's defining dishes: Fish &amp; Chips in the North, Balti in the midlands, Snail Porridge at the Fat Duck. But it is the colourful characters we meet along the way who truly bring Full English to life.

Tom Parker Bowles

Praise for Full English

A richly enjoyable defence of the world's most unfairly derided cuisine

Books by Tom Parker Bowles

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