Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony is 12th and 13th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 13 |
SMOG Index | Grade 13 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 10 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony is 77,190 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 9 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 35 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 52 mins.
The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony - 77,190 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 35 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 9 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 52 mins |
for The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food criticsAs the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance—“a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking”—he learned that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one."From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, “a professional glutton.”