Morgan Murphy (food critic)

Morgan Murphy in 2012

Morgan Murphy (born February 14, 1972) is an award-winning American food critic and the author of "Off the Eaten Path" by Time Warner.

Bourbon & Bacon (2014)

• I went on a bourbon diet for three days and lost a week.
  • p. 68
• Another round? It would be rude not to.
  • p. 74
• Abstaining from bourbon and bacon doesn't make you live longer. It just feels that way.
  • p. 130
• Bacon tastes better than skinny feels.
  • p. 161
• If there's no bacon in heaven, I don't plan on going.
  • p. 180
• All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!
  • p. 193
• I don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty as long as there's bacon on the plate.
  • p. 213
• Bacon makes almost any meal tolerable.
  • p. 216
• I wish you all full plates, glasses, tables, and hearts.
  • p. 288

Off the Eaten Path: Second Helpings (2013)

• This isn't a diet book. In fact, you may gain 30 pounds just reading it.
  • p. 7
• I may be the only man in America who can qualify for workers' comp based on my cholesterol.
  • p. 7

Off the Eaten Path (2011)

• If you truly want to learn a place, eat the food of its people.
  • p. 8

Sourced

• My four Southern food groups are bourbon, salt, bacon and pie.
  • Interview with The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 2012
• In the South, you will get a lot of sugar — and by that we mean a lot of hugs and kisses. We don't air kiss in the South.
  • Interview with The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 2012