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Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French Cuisine
ISBN: PB: 9780226243245, ISBN: HB: 9780226243238, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.
French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation".Accounting for Taste" brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the myster...
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£25,00
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£23,00
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Feeding the Gods Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal
ISBN: HB: 9781905422104, Seagull Books, June 2006
128 pp., 20x14.4 cm, 28 halftones
As the pungent fragrance of spices transports the author back into memories of childhood, we too are plunged headlong into the rich tastes, textures and colours of food in her native Bengal. Here, food is a ritualised and intrinsic part of the cultur...
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£19,00
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Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads
ISBN: PB: 9780226494074, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
464 pp., 22.8x18 cm, 35 halftones, 7 line illus.
Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashio...
PB:
£14,50
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Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
ISBN: PB: 9780226555928, University of Chicago Press, May 2004
254 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 23 menus in Chinese
Lauded by Calvin Trillin as a man who "does not have to make to with translations like 'Shredded Three Kinds' in Chinese restaurants", in "The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters", James D. McCawley offers everyone a guide to deciphering the mysterie...
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£11,50
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Medieval Kitchen Recipes from France and Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780226706856, University of Chicago Press, April 2000
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, numerous line illus.
"The Medieval Kitchen" is a delightful work in which historians Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi rescue from dark obscurity the glorious cuisine of the Middle Ages. Medieval gastronomy turns out to have been superb – a wonderful me...
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£22,50
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