The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett

The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett

The title They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World says it all. This fun encyclopedia, organized A-Z, describes and offers cultural context for foodstuffs people eat today that might be described as weird--at least to the American palate. Entries also include American regional standards, such as scrapple and chitterlings, that other regions might find distasteful, as well as a few mainstream American foods, like honey, that are equally odd when one considers their derivation.

A long narrative entry on insects, for example, discusses the fact that insects are enjoyed as a regular part of the diet in some Asian, South and Central American, and African countries. It then looks at the kinds of insects eaten, where and how they are eaten, cultural uses, nutrition, and preparation. Each of the encyclopedia's 100 entries includes a representative recipe or, for a food already prepared like maggoty cheese, describes how it is eaten. Each entry ends with suggested readings.

"An unalloyed delight" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Hanchett [spoils] a lot of fun for the crackpots, the paranoids, and the not-so-artful deceivers who have inhabited the Lincoln assassination field." -- History Book Club Review. "Sketches the fevered, anti-Lincoln atmosphere in which Booth acted, and offers the most plausible account we are ever likely to have of his real motivation." -- American Heritage

William Hanchett is professor of history at San Diego State University and author of Irish: Charles G. Halpine in Civil War America and of numerous articles on Lincoln and the Civil War era.

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Titel	The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies
Autor	William Hanchett
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1989-09-01
Seitenanzahl	328
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