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“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend that you do not read his book.” Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet (“choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover”) and decrying the worst offenders (“kale is the early morning of foods”). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling book Dad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave—hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why pretzel bread is #3 on his most important inventions of humankind (behind the wheel and the computer), and the answer to the age-old question “which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?”

Jim Gaffigan konnte es sich nie vorstellen, selbst einmal Kinder zu haben. Obwohl er in einer großen irisch-katholischen Familie aufgewachsen ist und fünf Geschwister hat, zog er es vor, das nomadische und vor allem nachtaktive Leben eines Comedians zu führen – und war damit äußerst zufrieden. All dies änderte sich, als er heiratete und herausfand, dass seine Frau Jeannie eine Person ist, »die allein vom Anschauen schwanger wird«. Fünf Kinder später fing der Comedian, dessen Videos auf YouTube Millionen Mal angeklickt wurden, an, über seine Fehler und Triumphe bei der Kindererziehung zu tweeten. Diese Tweets trafen offensichtlich einen Nerv: Innerhalb kürzester Zeit hatte er mehr als 1 Million Follower auf Twitter. Doch bald kristallisierte sich heraus, dass 140 Zeichen nicht genug sind, um alle Freuden und Schrecken eines Lebens mit fünf Kindern zum Ausdruck zu bringen, daher schrieb er Schlafenszeit oder Verhandeln mit Terroristen. Von jungen Eltern bis zu denen, deren Kinder bereits ausgezogen sind – alle werden sich und ihre Familien wiedererkennen. Ein wunderbares Buch, das nur ein wenig wie ein Hilfeschrei eines Mannes klingt, der erkannt hat, dass er und seine Frau in ihrem eigenen Zuhause in der Minderzahl sind.

<b>Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids. </b> Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be "that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about." But all that changed when he married and found out his wife, Jeannie "is someone who gets pregnant looking at babies." Five kids later, the comedian whose riffs on everything from Hot Pockets to Jesus have scored millions of hits on YouTube, started to tweet about the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad. Those tweets struck such a chord that he soon passed the million followers mark. But it turns out 140 characters are not enough to express all the joys and horrors of life with five kids, so hes' now sharing it all in <i>Dad Is Fat.</i> From new parents to empty nesters to Jim's twenty-something fans, everyone will recognize their own families in these hilarious takes on everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to growing up in a big family ("I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew") to changing diapers in the middle of the night ("like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous") to bedtime (aka "Negotiating with Terrorists"). <i>Dad is Fat </i>is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.