Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,dedicated,expansive felt-tip,black ink signature: 'To Char, Cheers! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall' to half-title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Matt,white background with author's portrait colour photographic illustrated panels with red+b/w letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A light grub mark to rear panel of dw/dj - else fine.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal,but clean and unmarked; contents bright, tight,solid and sound, clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,mauve+white striped headband,and immaculate plain mauve endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn, ix-xiiipp+3-288pp [paginated] includes author intro,7 chapters (the last being the author's new revised,food quiz, part of which originally set for The Guardian,Dec,2004) an index and credits.Plus [unpaginated],SIGNED half-title page,title page,dedication +acknowledgements,contents list/table,b/w line illus/vignetted title separator pages (6),and a note on type last page.An uncommon, SIGNED,1st edn.
In this hugely enjoyable collection,Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall chomps his way through the edible,the delectable,and the plain indigestible.
'Hugh Fearlessly Eatsitall' has been writing about food in all its guises for twenty years.To some,his concept of 'good eating' might seem a bit skewed - he'd always bypass a McBurger in favour of a squirrel sandwich and make a detour for fresh roadkill - but to others he is a shining and shaggy beacon of good sense in a food world gone mad,the scourge of all those who would feed us less well than we deserve.
Armed with a broad mind,a quick wit and a ready appetitie,Hugh covers almost every area of global food culture.Whether singing the praises of offal; debunking Colonel Sanders and Dr Atkins; playing 'poisson roulette' with the deadly fugu fish in Tokyo; pondering the moral inconsistency of those who condemn fox hunting for its cruelty while happily tucking into factory-farmed chicken; fishing for marlin in Kenya,and barracuda in the Bahamas; analysing the dunking qualities of classic British biscuits; contemplating why,if piglets are destined for the pot,puppies aren't; or reminding us that a reindeer isn't just for Christmas,but tasty all year round,Hugh has an unerring ability to entertain and to provoke.
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