Eating Crow: A Novel. This item is unavailable.Eating Crow: A Novel

Apologizing to the widow of a chef who committed suicide after receiving a bad review, restaurant critic Marc Basset so enjoys being forgiven that he decides to apologize to everyone he has ever wronged, setting in motion a series of events that culminates in his appointment as Chief Apologist for the United Nations. 35,000 first printing.

"Exceptional....ÝI¨f the late Julia Child's mantra was 'Never apologize, ' Jay Rayner takes the opposite tack in "Eating Crow.."..An entertaining story."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

"Worthy of a standing ovation."

-- "The New York Times"

Gordon Ramsey Jay Rayner shows food critics are human after all, even when stuffed with chocolate. A highly entertaining whimsy with no apology needed.

Anthony Bourdain author of "Kitchen Confidential" A very funny book about apologies -- by someone who has a lot to apologize for.

"Worthy of a standing ovation."
-- "The New York Times"

"A delicious satire of gourmandise and geopolitics."
-- "The Wall Street Journal"

"Exceptional....[I]f the late Julia Child's mantra was 'Never apologize, ' Jay Rayner takes the opposite tack in "Eating Crow."...An entertaining story."
-- "Los Angeles Times"