Authors@Google: Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni was working as the New York Times's Rome bureau chief when he got a call from an editor in New York: How would he like to become the newspaper's next restaurant critic, a job draped in myth, glamour, intrigue and sometimes controversy? The most important question the editor asked, however, wasn't about nerves, editorial confidence or culinary erudition. It was about Bruni's weight: Was he willing to risk becoming fat again?

In his New York Times bestseller, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite, Bruni shares his very surprising life-long struggle with food and weight. Stout, chubby and always and endlessly hungry, Bruni spent his much of his life fighting all manner of eating drama - fad diets, pills, fasting, purging, cleansing, and the all-too-familiar roller coaster of gains and losses. When his weight ballooned up to about 270 pounds, and his love life all but dried up, something had to change. And something indeed did. By the time he was offered the job of restaurant critic in 2004, he was 65 pounds lighter than he'd been at his worst. The new job was going to be his acid test: had he finally achieved a truce with food and found the ability to enjoy it without being undone by it?

Frank Bruni was named restaurant critic for The New York Times in April 2004. Before that, he was the newspaper's Rome bureau chief, a White House reporter, the lead correspondent covering George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential Campaign, and a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Ambling into History, about George W. Bush, and his restaurant-related articles for the Times have appeared in each of the last three editions of "Best Food Writing" in America. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for his work before the Times at the Detroit Free Press. He currently is a reporter-at-large for the New York Times and lives in New York City.

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[jamesjames371]

“I am always pushing Whole Foods to my friends and family to the point that they are think I work for you. That is why a friend just took great pleasure in sending me this article about Whole Foods and quality standards not being what they used to be Please respond so I can defend Whole Foods to my friend!”

[uqox]

I had hoped this would be a touch more interesting, but I would have to say his insight at 39 minutes in was the first time what he does seemed interesting. Likewise, I enjoyed his discussion on still having the ability to enjoy food just for sustenance and how an average burger was okay with him. Otherwise, the time spent on thin Italians is topic right up there with thin Parisians, which has been answered-portions. Likewise, the difficulty of a food addiction. Meh. Nothing much new here.

[hideyoshi999]

The guy looks bored

[himsanjun]

wow, the moderator girl look like 16 years old, max college sophomore. by the way, Frank, I bet you can work for radio station too, great voice you have man.