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Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth by Tucker Shaw

Warning: Don’t read this book when you’re hungry! Author/photographer Tucker Shaw takes your taste buds on a journey throughout one of the fine dining capitals, New York. By photographing every morsel of food that entered his mouth, every day for an entire year, Shaw allows readers a unique and personal glimpse into a year of his life by way of food. The book is set up as a “food diary” that is candid and detailed. Each page is one day, and the pictures on each show exactly what Shaw ate that day, what it’s called, where he consumed it, who he ate it with, and even the exact time he devoured it. This book will be interesting to any foodies out there who wonder what other people eat on a regular basis, or anyone curious about people’s habits. Shaw, a New York denizen, is surrounded by world class restaurants and exotic dining, so he has his fair share of caviar, Kobe beef, fancy sushi, as well as your typical bowl of cereal, spaghetti, and midnight snack candies. Just like reading your little sister’s diary, Shaw’s quirky photo food diary gives you that sense of guilty pleasure, and allows you to enjoy food in a different way, without all the calories! - Reviewed by Michelle Truong

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