"For me, the two greatest discoveries of the twentieth century were the Cuisinart and the clitoris."
So says Gael Greene, insatiable food critic extraordinaire, who has indulged her appetites for fun, frolic, and food in a delicious excess of foreplay and fork play. Described as the tastiest, most uninhibited memoir in years, her latest offering, Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, is a feast for the senses and an aphrodisiac for the soul.
Over the past four decades Greene has reviewed and reveled in New York's finest restaurants, her spicy commentary introducing readers to each new and delicious culinary trend. Delivering a delectable recipe of haute cuisine, signature fashion, and unfurling world events, Greene's decadent memoir is all the more tasty for its delicious descriptions of sexual trysts with a tasty selection of famous men.
With a prodigious appetite for all things sensual, her affairs are as bountiful and indulgent as her meals. With chapter titles like "Splendour in the Foie Gras", "Slow Death By Mayonnaise", and "Bonfire of the Foodies", and flavoured with such marvelous male ingredients as Elvis Presley, Burt Reynolds, and Clint Eastwood, the book is a mouth-watering memoir of life's juiciest pleasures.
Emerging from her humble midwest Velveeta beginnings, Greene takes her readers on a saucy, all-expenses paid romp through New York, France, and beyond, as she pursues her sybaritic lifestyle among the famous and the fabulous. After a groundbreaking charge into territory not usually reserved for women and with no training as a restaurant critic when she signed on with a fledgling New York Magazine in 1968, she successfully negotiated the same terms as her idol at the New York Times, Craig Claiborne. These included eating at every reviewed restaurant three times, with friends, with the magazine paying the cheque!
"I wanted to feel every nerve ending - to taste it all."
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