Seriously, Roach’s writing style is so accessible, witty, and vivid that I would’ve gulped down this book (hehe) regardless of the topic. Anyway, the alimentary canals in Mary Roach’s book have vastly more remarkable lives than my own Gulp unquestionably opened my ileocecal valve to possibilities I had never before imagined. She’s talking about literally seeing her ileocecal valve and appendix-a pleasure that I will undoubtedly be introduced to within the next handful of years, but that’s another story-but I think we can also take Roach figuratively. Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. I figure we can all benefit from being a little better acquainted with our guts. Even though it’s not exactly the paean to taste buds and olfaction that I had imagined when I first picked it up, I still think it’s a great book to include in the pages of Cozy Foodie. I discovered this blind spot when I read Mary Roach’s Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (NY: Norton, 2013). My relationship with food has always ended at the point when I swallow, but I never knew that.
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