The First Chapbook for Foodies: Recipes and Repasts Literature and Lore
There is a special kind of person--a "foodie"--who not only loves to eat but harbors a fascination with food, cooking, and dining that no feast could satisfy. This obsession is not just about... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0942627679
ISBN13:9780942627671
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:Woodford Publishing
Length:252 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 7.8"
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What a delicious surprise!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I received this as a birthday gift, and couldn't put it down. I've since bought several copies to give to friends. It is filled with marvelous writing, good humor, some fascinating recipes, and lots of unexpected morsels, like Cary Grant's delightful obsession with English muffins, a poetic dinner invitation from Ben Jonson, Noel Coward's little ditty about the wonders of eating pork, Ben Franklin on digestion woes, Freud on food and dreams, and a truly exotic recounting by 19th-century explorer Richard Burton about dining in Mecca. There are excerpts about food from great literature -- Homer, Chaucer, Joyce, Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens -- and just wonderful thinking about food from such insightful writers on the subject as James Beard, MFK Fisher, John Thorne, and Raymond Sokolov. It's a lot of fun from start to finish, though I do suggest, as Jeff Silverman, who compiled the collection, stresses, if you ever decide to try making a blanc mange, make sure that you don't dye it green. Silverman's own celebration of chocolate is a full meal in itself.
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