Exploring cultural, scientific, sexual, and culinary substructures, this essential read for all foodies, at turns both funny and fascinating, looks at the little-known history surrounding food.
Record details
ISBN:0062973215
ISBN:9780062973214
Physical Description:270 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-249) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A history of swallowing -- Pie, progress, and Plymouth Rock -- Breakfast of champions -- Children of the corn -- Honey laundering -- The vanilla of society -- The ghosts of Cockaigne past -- The choices of a new generation -- Forbidden berries (or appetite for distraction) -- Attack of the killer tomatoes.