The definitive book on steak has never been written-until now"Of all the meats, only one merits its own structure. There is no such place as a lamb house or a pork house, but even a small town can have a steak house." So begins Mark Schatzker's ultimate carnivorous quest. Fed up with one too many mediocre steaks, the intrepid journalist set out to track down, define, and eat the perfect specimen. His journey takes him to all the legendary sites of steak excellence-...

Questing for the perfect cut of beef, award-winning food and travel writer Mark Schatzker embarks on an odyssey to four continents, travelling thousands of miles across eight countries and working his way through more than 100 lbs of steak prepared according to dozens of techniques. The result is an impassioned, funny and remarkably enlightening study of steak and its discontents as well as its many delights. Schatzker begins with a Proustian moment, a lovingly remembered morsel from his p...

Non siamo nati per ingrassare. Il nostro cervello è un "genio metabolico", una guida esperta che ci suggerisce cosa mangiare o evitare per il bene della nostra salute. Eppure in America diabete e obesità sono ormai una piaga sociale, oltre che sanitaria, e anche in Europa e in Italia i numeri cominciano a preoccupare. E così da decenni si combatte una vera e propria guerra contro la cattiva alimentazione, addebitando tutta la colpa, di volta in volta, ai grassi, ai carboidrati o alle prote...

The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunctional relationship with food began—and how science is leading us back to healthier living and eating.For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high bl...

A lively argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America’s health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor: “The Dorito Effect is one of the most important health and food books I have read” (Dr. David B. Agus, New York Times bestselling author).We are in the grip of a food crisis. Obesity has become a leading cause of preventable death, after only smoking. For nearly half a century we’ve ...