This week the top pick, Mark Kurlansky's Edible Stories prevailed because the creative and unique deserve a post. The full name of the book is Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts which is to say, 16 short storie that are loosely woven together to form, if not a cohesive whole, then at least a fascinating one.
Naturally, some of the stories are weaker than others, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You really need to read all of them to appreciate Kurlansky's inventiveness.
While the majority of reviews online focused on the food, and really there is an aspect of food and/or drink in all the stories, I liked the quirkiness, the oddities that we meet throughout, beginning with Robert Eggles. But what really stuck with me, and this may be more appealing to me due to my way of thinking (which is pretty linear), was the way the stories were all part of a giant web that circled back around at the end.
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