This work draws on the considerable literature of food and wine writing from biblical feasts to the present day by way of Proust, Dickens, Thackeray, John Evelyn, Sidney Smith, Keats, Chaucer, Swinburne, Yeats, and Virginia Woolfe. There are food-related lines by E.E. Cummings and Auden, extracts from diarists like Parson Woodforde, and meals from Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Margaret Drabble, Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout and Julian Barnes. It also includes essays on food and drink by ...
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This work draws on the considerable literature of food and wine writing from biblical feasts to the present day by way of Proust, Dickens, Thackeray, John Evelyn, Sidney Smith, Keats, Chaucer, Swinburne, Yeats, and Virginia Woolfe. There are food-related lines by E.E. Cummings and Auden, extracts from diarists like Parson Woodforde, and meals from Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Margaret Drabble, Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout and Julian Barnes. It also includes essays on food and drink by Raymond Sokolov, Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, and an Italo Calvino story on cannibalism.
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Good in Good dust jacket. 067085266X. Xvi, 384 pp. Index. Illustrated with occasional charming black and white cuts. Black dust jacket with 1600s illustrations of melon, cabbage and quince. DJ has some short tears, sticker marks, flaps intact. Covers are clean and unmarked, interior one page of the contents has a small faint mark, otherwise clean and nice. The first modern anthology to bring together a selection of the finest writing on gastronomy. Includes selections from Elizabeth David, Claudia Roden, Jane Grigson, M. F. K. Fisher, A. J. Liebling, Ludwig Bemelmans, Joseph Wechsberg, Samuel Chamberlain, etc.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 400 pages.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780140232592.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780140232592.
