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Much Depends on Dinner Margaret Visser

Much Depends on Dinner By Margaret Visser

Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser


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Summary

An excursion into the origins and background of an ordinary dinner: corn on the cob or chicken with rice. Tracing the historical, cultural, agricultural and social strands that run through their history, the author presents the reader with an anthropology of everyday life.

Much Depends on Dinner Summary

Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser

An excursion into the origins and background of an ordinary dinner: corn on the cob, chicken with rice, lettuce salad and ice-cream. Tracing the historical, cultural, agricultural and social strands that run through their history, the author presents the reader with an anthropology of everyday life. This book was the winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award for the Food Book of the Year. The author also wrote The Rituals of Dinner.

Table of Contents

What shall we have for dinner?; corn - our mother, our life; salt - the edible rock; butter - and something just as good; chicken - from jungle fowl to patties; rice - the tyrant with a soul; lettuce - the vicissitudes of salad; olive oil - a tree and its fruits; lemon juice - a sour note; ice cream - cold comfort.

Additional information

GOR006953744
9780140469455
0140469451
Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19920924
352
Winner of Glenfiddich Awards: Food Book of the Year 1990
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