Frank Bruni Audio & Video

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Frank Bruni was working as the New York Times's Rome bureau chief when he got a call from an editor in New York: How would he like to become the newspaper's next restaurant critic, a job draped in myth, glamour, intrigue and sometimes controversy?

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes "a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope" (Booklist, starred review).

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of struggling with his outsize appetite. Frank Bruni was born round, round as in stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry.