I have always believed that my most sacred restaurant-scouting duty is to the reader, not the restaurant. My task is to give informed, unprejudiced, uninfluenced reports, so that the reader can know what to expect. And of all the criteria-decor, service, wine list, cachet-it is the food that I try to judge most carefully. -Byron Ayanoglu EATING MY WORDS is more than a restaurant guide. It is Montreal Gazette restaurant critic Byron Ayanoglu's report on eating his way through Montreal's finest and best-known restaurants over a 12-month period. It is food writing that entertains and informs?providing the facts necessary to guarantee a successful evening out in a restaurant. EATING MY WORDS features? - Quick-reference capsule reviews - Major reviews - Comprehensive indexes - Complete information on each restaurant

Fluent in five languages, a graduate of McGill University, widely travelled Byron Ayanoglu is the author of twelve books: fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and restaurant guides as well as fourteen stage plays, including Ordinaryman. He has worked in film and TV, including co-host of Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Greek Islands Episode, 2008, host of Roadside Restaurants, a ninety-minute restaurant-cooking show for PBS, 1997. He is also the writer and producer of Faces of Myth (2004), Mimetoliths (2006), Shapeshifter (2007), and MasterClass with Walter Lassally (2008).

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