Jason Peters lives in Williamston, Michigan. He is the editor of Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic; he is also Professor of English at Augustana College.
"Imagine a collection of essays with all the wit and polish found
in The New Yorker. Subtract the nasally, condescending tone and the
moral vacuum also found there. Add in an authentic Midwestern
accent and a Christian sensibility (e.g., always slice asparagus
stalks so as to honor the Holy Trinity). Let it marinate in a
fanciful wine over several days of reading, and you have Jason
Peters' The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty,
Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand."
--Allan C. Carlson, author of The Natural Family Where It Belongs:
New Agrarian Essays
"The funniest writer in America is a broken-down hoops star of
irrepressible high spirits, an astringent Christian wit, a cussedly
independent rhapsodist of olive burgers and local beers, and a
whipper of creams and puller of pork and minter of apothegms. Jason
Peters is the (gaunt) Chesterton of Dumb Ass Acres, Michigan. Read
him while it's still legal to do so."
--Bill Kauffman, author of Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette
"Imagine Falstaff finds God, gets lucky in marriage, and retreats
to a farm, where his epic appetites, redeemed at last by person and
place, inspire him to share his wit and wisdom (much of it stolen
from his well-stocked bookshelf) on the joys of food and drink. In
The Culinary Plagiarist, Peters puts the gusto back into gustatory,
serving spicy verbs and gutting sacred cows. Consumer warning:
don't swallow while laughing."
--David Bosworth, author of The Demise of Virtue in Virtual
America
"In the kind of whimsical and lyrical prose that is all too rare
these days, Jason Peters artfully combines the best of what has
been thought and written with the best of what has been cooked and
fermented to produce a thoroughly entertaining and rewarding book.
I could not wait to turn the page and see what was next from
Peters' delightful and slightly devious brain."
--Michael P. Foley, author of Drinking with the Saints and The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Christianity
"This book is delicious--every chapter a little amuse-gueule. If
Roger Scruton was a beer connoisseur, he would have written this
book. If Robert Farrar Capon weren't high church, he would have
written this book. Put this on your shelf between Supper of the
Lamb and I Drink Therefore I Am. Wonderful!"
--Richard Avramenko, author of Courage: The Politics of Life and
Limb
"Jason Peters' writing on food, drink, and other earthy pleasures
is like the most candid essayist--Montaigne, say--on truth serum.
He may be the raunchiest gourmand ever to publish kitchen (and
bedroom) musings, and also the funniest. Beneath the libidinous
arias on martinis and mushrooms, however, there is a reverent man
at work, as devoted to topsoil as to pasta, as versed in the Bible
as in bourbon. The book is a wise romp. Read it with your favorite
dish or darling."
--Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination
"I've never met anyone who takes more pleasure than Jason Peters in
working out the implications of the Incarnation, and his delicious
prose spreads the pleasure around. If you enjoy outlandish similes,
learning subversively deployed, and great throwaway opinions voiced
as if any sensible person will agree, this book is for you."
--John Shelton Reed, co-author of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North
Carolina Barbecue
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