Bedside Companion for Food Lovers
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-84994-796-1 (ISBN)
A delicious literary anthology all about food. With extracts from over 200 authors, it embraces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and even a smattering of recipes, with one piquant extract for every night of the year.
This absorbing book is a literary feast for every food lover. Within these pages, you'll discover a wealth of foodie extracts from around the world and throughout the centuries, from Christmas feasts in Tudor times to Nigella Lawson on how much cheese to buy for a dinner party. In addition to renowned food writers such as Elizabeth David, Madhur Jaffrey and Anthony Bourdain, it includes literary greats like Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maya Angelou, and some intriguing curiosities such as the surreal recipes in 1932’s Futurist Cookbook. And, of course, Mrs Beeton makes an appearance. Also on the menu are:
• Tantalizing gingerbread in Jane Austen's Emma.
• The joys of Caribbean cooking in Sam Selvon’s The Housing Lark.
• Ingenious wartime solutions in MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf and much, much more.
Keep this delectable book by your bedside and savour a whole world of delicious food writing every night of the year – and it also makes the perfect gift for the foodie in your life!
Jane McMorland Hunter is a dedicated foodie and passionate lover of the written word who works at Hatchards bookshop when not writing. She has written and edited several books, including Ode to London, Favourite Poems of England, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year. She lives in Fulham, West London.
Introduction 7
JANUARY: A Little Something 10
FEBRUARY: A Baker's Bow-window 46
MARCH: A Dinner of Fifty Dishes 80
APRIL: A Basket of Sugar-cakes 116
MAY: Between Luxury and Abstinence 150
JUNE: An Air of Profusion 184
JULY: The Mellowing Influence of Good Food 218
AUGUST: An Exquisite Scent of Olives and Oil 252
SEPTEMBER: The Table Seemed to Groan 286
OCTOBER: The Best Repast Possible 318
NOVEMBER: Please Sir, I Want Some More 354
DECEMBER: The Delights of the Season 388
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Bedside Companions |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 521 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84994-796-1 / 1849947961 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84994-796-1 / 9781849947961 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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