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Food, Sex, & Salmonella [Paperback]

David Waltner-Toens (Author)
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Publication Date: Dec 4 1992

What sex is to inter-personal relationships, eating is to the Human-Environment relationship, a daily consummation of our de facto marriage to the living biosphere.

This book is about the true meaning of eating, intimacy, love, vomiting and diarrhea: You and your food partner. It is about the celebration of ecology through eating and about how food poisoning can save the world.

This book should be kept next to your toilet, and also next to your refrigerator. The next time you suffer from a bout of food poisoning, doubled over in abdominal pain, feeling like there rages a true revolution within, I want you to understand what is happening to you, why the inner child is having a gaseous tantrum in your guts. I want you to hear Gaia's, the earth organism's, whispered love-message to you.

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An interesting book, with the somewhat improbable title Food, Sex and Salmonella: The Risks of Environmental Intimacy, comes from David Waltner-Toews, a veterinarian who writes a column for Harrowsmith magazine. Waltner-Toews is intelligent, sensible, and genuinely funny. This book really is about salmonella, but it has a wider scope that is constantly enlivened by the author's insightful wit and considerable research skills. It may turn you into a compulsive hand-washer, but you'll be a laughing, better-informed compulsive hand-washer. Highly recommended.
Brian Fawcett (Books in Canada) -- Books in Canada

About the Author

David Waltner-Toews is best-known perhaps for his witty column in Harrowsmith, some of which appear here. He has worked on a wide range of health, environmental and international development issues, as well as research projects in zoonotic diseases and animal production. His first book with NC Press was One Animal Among Many. A Veterinary Epidemiologist, he teaches at the University of Guelph.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Two out of three ain't bad: Food, Sex and Salmonella Jan 14 2010
By Bryan J. Smith
Guelph's David Waltner-Toews writes transparently but very knowledgeably about food safety, our interaction with animals, our role here on planet Earth and human foibles. The anecdote about the restored nobility consuming oysters harvested in the castle moat is delightfully told, even if description of the results of the food poisoning that results from the oysters is somewhat too juicy to stomach directly before a meal.

Waltner-Toews is decidedly sensible, giving common sense advice founded on lots of research -he's a researcher and scientist - as well connecting various examples around the world, past and present. It is clear too that much of his content is derived from personal experience which supports his work as a scientist. As a result the short pieces read very well.

Of note too are the parallels between his prose writing here and his poetry in "The Fat Lady Struck Dumb", a delightful and highly readable collection on various subjects - his heritage, his mother, his travels and his family.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Feb 9 2012
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It is a good book on the subject of food poisoning. There are some fairly risque metaphors, which do not contribute to the broad appeal of the book. Kein Kinderbuch! I would not keep it within reach of children. On the other hand, he does a good job of revealing the hidden world of helpful and disease causing germs.
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