Books like Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table

I was given this book for my birthday and I wrote about it in my blog. I quoted part of the first chapter because Ellerbee wrote about a restaurant in Florence, Italy, and I knew exactly which place she meant. Further, I had taken a photograph of the entrance to the restaurant: it features a small table, set with a re-dhecked cloth, four plates, and seated at four tiny chairs are four small pigs. Ex-pigs. Deceased pigs, now dressed up, drinking wine and eating (I think) fava beans. And I added my photo to that blog entry, and thought no more about it....until a few months later, when an email popped up in my in-box, entitled "THE PIGS!!!" It was from Linda Ellerbee. Somehow, somewhere, she had read my entry about her book.All this to say, well, I'm a bit prejudiced.I loved this book. This is about being alive, choosing to be fearless, choosing to live loudly when you're middle-aged (and when you're younger) and to eat well while you go.