The Year Of Eating Dangerously

A food writer who not only has cojones but eats them too ... his deliciously descriptive writing includes thoughtful notes on conservation and animal welfare and some spicy, comic moment that really make the eyes water

Independent

His adventures are sometimes emetic but unfailingly fascinating

Sunday Times

Tackles eating the weird and wonderful with a refreshing lack of machismo ... Like Redmond O'Hanlon at his maddened best

Rose Prince, Daily Telegraph

His descriptions of food are more often meant to turn your stomach than to encourage you to salivate, but they are nonetheless precisely worded, vivid and, in the case of dog soup, all too compelling ... I think Tom Parker Bowles is going to be a real writer with a feeling for food and drink

Observer

An engaging read ... Tom is such a likeable narrator, enthusiastic, open, candid and sweary. He also has a fine line in self-deprecation ... Most of all he loves his food and communicates that zeal really well

Daily Mail

Inquisitive and acutely observed, it's an intimate, often humble account, full of warmth and honesty and underpinned with serious thought. Laugh-out-loud funny too

Delicious

Hilarious, macho and full of abstruse knowledge

Country Life

A truly wonderful compendium. Almost immediately he makes you laugh. Then he makes you very hungry. More critically important, however, is how his delighted enthusiasm with food particularly pleases and urges you to read on

Simon Hopkinson