Much Depends on Dinner
by Margaret Visser
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0802144934
- ISBN 13
- 9780802144935
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Winning unanimous praise on its publication and now available in paperback from Grove Press, Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat. Presented as a meal, each chapter represents a different course or garnish. Borrowing from Byron's classic poem "Don Juan" for her title ("Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner"), writer Margaret Visser looks to the most ordinary American dinner for her subject - corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad dressed in lemon juice and olive oil, and ice cream - submerging herself in the story behind each food. In this indulgent and perceptive guide we hear the history of Corn Flakes, why canned California olives are so unsatisfactory (they're picked green, chemically blackened, then sterilized), and the fact that in Africa, citrus fruit is eaten rind and all. For food lovers of all kinds, this unexpectedly funny and serious book is a treasure of information, shedding light on one of our most favorite pastimes.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ1634916
- Title
- Much Depends on Dinner
- Author
- Margaret Visser
- Format/Binding
- Extensive underlining/highlighting
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802144934
- ISBN 13
- 9780802144935
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Date Published
- 2010-06
- Keywords
- food, cooking, history, rituals, taboos, mythology, gastronomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food/Cooking;
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