Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans
Subtitle: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff that Makes them Great
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: April 1, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780007213788
First sentence: For a few weeks in the late 1960s the most glamorous place in Britain was Leicester Forest East service station, a newly constructed part of Harold Wilson's white-hot technological revolution.
Description: Egg bacon chips and beans is not just a printed-out version of www.eggbaconchipsandbeans.com because the publishers said that would be unacceptable, although it would have been much easier. As well as the jokey and unhelpful reviews of seemingly random cafes (nothing in the Lake District? Really?)  there are odd little essays about the most minute of cafe matters - the shapes and sizes of condiments, cafe art, misspellings and endless descriptions of the same meal. Along with badly taken photos mostly shot with a first generation camera phone. It's obviously brilliant.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Why the EBC&B?
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: The Cafes: Part 1 / Endless Variety
pagenum: 13; label: 3
title: Musings on bacon, beans, choice and value
pagenum: 34; label: 4
title: The Cafes: Part 2 / I've Been Known To Stuff My Face
pagenum: 45; label: 5
title: Crispness, Softness and Forms of Deviation
pagenum: 62; label: 6
title: The Cafes: Part 3 / Sitting, Thinking, Chatting, Laughing
pagenum: 69; label: 7
title: Pondering, Ettiquette, Sauce / Not Sauce
pagenum: 92; label: 8
title: The Cafes: Part 4 / Lovely, Lovely, Lovely
pagenum: 105; label: 9
title: Notions of Travel and Service
pagenum: 130; label: 10
title: The Cafes: Part 5 / On the Road
pagenum: 135; label: 11
title: Oh I Do Like To Be...
pagenum: 151; label: 12
title: The Cafes: Part 6 / Beside The Seaside
pagenum: 153; label: 13
title: Liquids, Ladies and Level 42
pagenum: 160