How to Eat a Lobster How to Eat a Lobster

How to Eat a Lobster

And Other Edible Enigmas Explained

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Publisher Description

Learn the answers to modern food and etiquette questions with this beautifully illustrated guide for curious foodies everywhere

For adventurous foodies everywhere, How to Eat a Lobster is the perfect handbook for handling every tricky dining situation you can imagine (and a few you can’t) with grace, style, and minimal splatter. With easy-to-follow instructions and helpful illustrations, you’ll learn the answers to 50 food-related questions you’ve been afraid to ask. (What do you do when crawfish arrive? Twist and snap off the head. Peel the tail and pull out the meat. Then suck the juices from the head. Seriously: you’re supposed to!)

Topics include:
• How to Eat Crawfish
• How to Eat Raw Oysters
• How to Eat Escargots
• How to Open a Coconut
• How to Slice a Mango
• How to Use Chopsticks
• How to Hold a Wineglass
• How to Use Bread as a Utensil
• How to Eat Sushi
• How to Recover from a Tongue Burn
• And more!

Equal parts cheat sheet and cheerleader, How to Eat a Lobster not only shows you how to open a coconut—it shows you that you can!

GENRE
Reference
RELEASED
2017
April 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Quirk Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
85.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Marina Ariadne ,

Issues in How to Eat a Lobster

•Images do not display consistently or well in landscape mode on an iPhone, and presumably, any similar phone. Not having a tablet, I cannot speak to this.

•How to eat a lobster
You will need:
>Lobster or crab cracker, nutcracker, or scissors…
>Lobster fork or crab pick (optional)

>Step 4.5 or 8.5 Break each of the smaller legs in the middle of the longest section. Using a lobster or crab pick, extract the small piece of meat.

•How to Go Nuts
>Cashews: “and other recipes”. *What* other recipes?

>Pecans: let the [carefully washed] pecans dry in a strainer 24 hours before eating or cooking with them—why?

•How to Taste Wine
>Watch out for corked wine—At a restaurant, you may be offered another bottle, or the charge is removed from your tab.

¥How to Drink Tea
You will need:
>Add lemon to the list

>How to Eat Sushi
You will need:
>Add Wasabi (optional) to the list

>Under Step 4, it is mentioned that one doesn’t mix soy sauce & wasabi, but in California sushi bars I’ve been to, no-one has heard of this rule, much less followed it. In Japan, I would expect to see non-mixing.

>How should wasabi ‘be applied to the fish’? Few I’ve seen are able to put an appropriately small amount using the standard wood chopsticks seen at most restaurants.

•How to Handle Beans
Add
>Crumble some dried epazote, found in Central and South American groceries in the US, into the beans while cooking. The pungent odor will disappear in the cooking, and it’s Nature’s Bean-o.

Other than these issues, the book was informative, well-organized, and well-laid-out, making it easy to read. The list of Foodie Fixes is great to know.

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