THE GREAT MCBURGER STATES OF AMERICA

The United States is many things to many people: to Peter Biddlecombe, it's food. America, he argues, is nothing less that a Great United Bumper McBurger: from the meat state of Connecticut (where the hamburger was invented in a New Haven parking lot) to the french fry state of Texas, where potato-head politician's ask "Is our children learning?" For salt, there's Utah. For relish, there's always Bill Clinton's Arkansas. Peter Biddlecombe's ninth collection of travels finds him struggling to come to terms with a country that has "Daylight Parking All Nite Long" and a World Series that has nothing to do with the rest of the world.PETER BIDDLECOMBE is the author of 'THE GREAT MCBURGER STATES OF AMERICA' with ISBN 9780349115207 and ISBN 0349115206.