"Benny the woodpecker makes a brilliant plan to eat a tasty plate of waffles"--

Sixty-four short fictions about food, sex, desire and its death.

"In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship...

Third-grader Sofia wants to wear a beautiful, hand-me-down dress to her cousin Rosario's quinceañara, but first she will have to lose some weight by exercising and eating healthier foods, with help from her mother and sister.

Pete and Paul the pigs love food, especially snacks and sweets. But Tractor Mac knows there is a better way to eat, and that it can even be fun, too: buying food from the farmers' market! So Tractor Mac and friends visit the local farmers' market, pick out a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, and cook up a big, healthy feast.

A worldly Englishman describes his life, his travels, the people he met, his intellectual and culinary pursuits, interspersing his account with witty observations. By the end of the book you get quite a jolt to discover all this time he was murdering.

Hoping to avoid eating her peas, Mabel puts them in her ears and discovers that her impaired hearing leads to other problems.