Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/05/2004
ISBN: 9780099449973
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 199mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 395g
RRP: £7.99
The winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history - from the fifth century BC to the present day.
Presented by subject - including 'Food and Sex', 'Bread', 'Rants' and 'Dessert' - and illustrated with Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings as well as classic photographs, this wonderful collection, like the very best meal, is varied, delicious and uniquely satisfying.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/05/2004
ISBN: 9780099449973
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 199mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 395g
RRP: £7.99
"An endlessly varied overview of our culinary history... an hors d'oeuvre to more satisfying topics of history and culture"
"A lively selection"
"The book is fat with eccentric wit, tips and recipes... there are rich pickings especially among the literary tidbits: Hemingway on fish in the Seine, Chekhov on oysters and - best of all - Pablo Neruda's 'Ode to French Fries'"
"A mouthwatering compendium on food"