Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of struggling with his outsize appetite.

Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry. He grew up in a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where

meals were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one of his foremost qualifications for his future career: an e…