“Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.” Like Dad Is Fat, Food: A Love Story is a rehash of Jim Gaffigan’s stand up mixed with new insights. My husband and I recently took a road trip, we can never agree on music so we listened to comedy on Pandora and the “Seafood” section is almost verbatim from his stand up. It’s incredibly noticeable if you’re listening to the audio […]
Hot Pockets 2: The Hot-Pocketing
There are few things Americans like to do more than eat. No one knows that better than comedian Jim Gaffigan. He has made a career celebrating and poking fun at our national obsession. In his new book, Food: A love Story, Gaffigan collects many of his stand up bits and expands on them, adds more, and delivers a consistently amusing, wry, and laugh out loud funny book. What I liked best about the book is that as much as Gaffigan professes his dislike for fruits […]
I Really Wanted to Like This (Part Two)
I like Jim Gaffigan. I think he’s funny, his episodes of the Nerdist podcast are fantastic. People I admire on Twitter were raving about this book, which I took as a good sign. I also like food. I love reading cook books, cooking, going out to eat, reading about chefs….I’m not calling myself a foodie, but I do enjoy it. You’d think this would be a natural fit! You’d also be wrong.