Diggin' in and Piggin' Out: One Man's Love for Real Food, Home Cookin' and High Spirits

There has been much written about food and the sensesand how it tantalizes our taste buds, warms our bellies, and stimulates our sniffers. But not until Diggin' In & Piggin' Out has food's relationship to an often overlooked senseour sense of humorbeen given its due. Here author Roger Welsch, a great lover of food, an anthropologist who has spent much of his life studying food and culture, and a pretty funny guy, reveals his own unique, distinctly manly brand of cuisine. Roger shares his secrets for tickling the palatefrom how to properly prepare barbecued ribs (hint: drink while you cook) to the basic tools of male culinary arts (hint: you've got ten of them This richly funny tour of food includes Roger's favorite tried-and-true recipes: Uncle Roger's Nutrition Bombshells, Mick's Blind Duck, Linda's Man-Magnet Mashed Potatoes, Boom John Carter's Huevos Rancherous (Acts I and II), Red Beer wild Fruit Wines, and the list goes on.

If you love to eat, if you love to laugh, if you love even the mere thought of a table laden with food, here's the book you've been waiting for since your last great meal.

"Roger Welsch is America's premier storyteller. From his lips small-town life takes on the dignity of history and the currency of the evening news."
- Charles Kuralt, author of On the Road with Charles Kuralt and former host of CBS Sunday Morning