A literary syncopation on the theme of food, Comfort Me With Apples earned Joe Fiorito rave reviews and enthusiastic fans when it was first published in 1994. One writer declared it was “a small miracle of prose.” A rich buffet of diverse short essays, Comfort Me With Apples is about the appetites of the soul as well as the body.
At first I found his prose too purple. His column acquired quite a cult following in Montréal when it first appeared in a free, alternative weekly. Sensual stuff.