The Oxford companion to food

Twenty years in the making, the first edition of Alan Davidson's magnum opus appeared in 1999 to worldwide acclaim. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity was recognized as utterly unique. Including both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods tha...

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Autore principale: Alan Davidson
Altri autori: Alan Davidson; edited by Tom Jaine; consultant editor; Jane Davidson; research director; Helen Saberi; illustrations by Soun Vannithone
Lingua:Undetermined
English
Pubblicazione: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2006
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Riassunto:Twenty years in the making, the first edition of Alan Davidson's magnum opus appeared in 1999 to worldwide acclaim. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity was recognized as utterly unique. Including both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind-fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or ears, eyeballs and testicles from a menagerie of animals-and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookbooks, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community, the Oxford Companion to Food immediately found distinction
Descrizione fisica:907 p.
ill.
29 cm
ISBN:0192806815
9780192806819