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Laughter has been shown to lower blood pressure, boost immune function, reduce stress hormones and improve brain function so perhaps this slender book of short stories should be listed under "Self Help" as well as fiction. As the title suggests, The Unlimited Salad Bar is a collection of stories intended to nourish body and spirit. Here you will not find heavy entrees of fiction but a feast of leafy greens - that is, comedy from wry smiles to belly laughs.

In the first story of this book, a rousing sailing race across the Chesapeake Bay sets the comic tone as the narrator resorts to undreamed of sailing techniques as well as the use of a giant mullet to gain an advantage over his rivals who have their own bag of tricks. That first story is followed by a fanciful exploration into inventions such as The Happy Dog Communication Collar and the Mr. Winemaker machine which hints at the possible future in the world of wine (the writer is a winemaker). Next is a whimsical look at new occupants of the White House as seen in a Hollywood manner. Another story finds a young couple discovering the true meaning of love during Sunday soaks in an oversized bathtub. Next, the will of a wealthy diarist details his amorous adventures with twenty-seven married women to whom he has bequeathed his considerable fortune. Then it's on to a fantastic historic account of the early, somewhat bawdy, days of an American town as told by a raconteur who imagines heroes of mythical proportions. Next, a young man invites a famous stripper to his sixteenth birthday party never expecting her to show up. But she does. And finally we get the back story on a famous fairy tale.