Einstein's Beets Author:Alexander Theroux This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history. — Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and ?all lumpy stuff.? Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Theroux?s Einstein?s Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes ... more »of hundreds of people?mostly famous and well-known?toward eating and dining out, hilariously recounting tales of confrontation and scandalous alienation: it contains gossip, confession, embarrassment, and perceptive observations. Prose.« less