63 Short-Short Stories -- Start this book anywhere!
Some of us eat to live; others live to eat. Martindale examines food from its fun side to its serious side, rich or poor, how celebratory, how labor-intense, how meager for some and always extremely regional. Food matters all around us due to its amazing history, comedy, traveling ways, versatility, acquisition, recipe bartering, preparation and marketing evolution.Haggis embarrassment - Subway refreshments -- Brazil yesterday - Coconut lifeline -- Everglades dining -- Chocolate that couldn't melt -- Nude on a sushi platter -- Hippie ending -- Where cookbooks get written -- Iron Chef farce -- Doggy-bag indexing - Brewsky in Greece -- French army potato salad -- Jason's parents'"'tinis" -- Big Easy hangover - Picnic kybosh -- Elevator passion - Blackmail beauty - Dinner table baggage artists -- Corn smut cancellation -- Imitating Indian -- Wedding pig-out -- Bush doctor's secrets - sixty-three in all!Contact: Marty Martindale, Author Marty@MartyMartindale.info 727.596.8509Sites: http://www.MARTYMARTINDALE.infohttp://www.FOODSITEOFTHEDAY.com http://www.GETALTRUISM.orgAbout the author:A selection from Martindale's story titled, You Plan the Best Picnics:Find SHORT ORDERS: Food Stories and Travels online at Amazon and other popular booksellers in the U.S. and abroad. Also available on Kindle/PC and all other readers.With a background in social/cultural anthropology, broadcast media, hotels and travel writing, Martindale delves into food from all sides. For over 30 years, she has contributed to several food encyclopedias, Storied Dishes, Culinary Biographies, travel, food, and trade magazines and newspapers. Martindale founded Food Site of the Day in 2001, featuring weekly foodsite picks, worldwide menu sampling, special archives, reviews and frequent blogging. Though a native New Englander, she now lives on the west coast of Florida after spending many years in New Mexico and Mississippi's Gulf Coast.LARGO, Fla., Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SHORT ORDERS: Food Stories and Travels - is fiction and non-fiction about food in our lives. Savor these quirky, sometimes thought-provoking, slices-of-life.About the book:"Marty's writing is captivating. It has just enough humor, yet there's an undeniable flavor of real-world education with her anecdotes. There's maturity and substance to it, however youthful the stories are." - J. Lipinski, Massachusetts(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110803/FL46706 )SOURCE Marty Martindale
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