Choice Cuts by Mark Kurlansky
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.
An endlessly varied overview of our culinary history.. an hors d'oeuvre to more satisfying topics of history and culture * Scotland on Sunday *
A lively selection * Guardian *
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' * The Times *
A mouthwatering compendium on food * Vogue *
A lively selection * Guardian *
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' * The Times *
A mouthwatering compendium on food * Vogue *
Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, The Basque History of the World and Salt: A World History; the novels Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue and Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts; and the short story collection The White Man in the Tree. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099449973 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099449978 |
| Titel | Choice Cuts |
| Autor | Mark Kurlansky |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2004-05-06 |
| Seitenanzahl | 496 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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