Hi VN-GAL this book is just for us both........LOL!!! Remember how we used to think that we should be a food critic for a living....

Tom Parker-Bowles - Year of Eating Dangerously

Tom admits that he wakes up every morning thinking about food... ... Tom Parker Bowles is fast becoming one of the UK's most respected food writers.

His second book, "The Year of Eating Dangerously" was published by Ebury in October 2006. In it he goes to Laos to sample water beetles and to Korea to taste for himself why dog is still found on the menu. He climbs Spanish cliffs in search of goose-neck barnacles, and surreptitiously seeks out elvers (baby eels) at the witching hour in Gloucestershire. He takes part in a chilli-eating contest in New Mexico and savours sauces with names like Butt Twister, Colon Cleanser and Ditch the Bitch. He discovers that bee pupae are delicious, 'as addictive as Pringles but 100 times as nice' whereas silkworm pupae make him think of 'freshly dug graves'. The book teaches us, if nothing else, that Tom Parker Bowles is seriously dedicated to eating. Tom is the son of the Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Camilla Parker Bowles) and Andrew Parker Bowles.