Hungry for You: From Cannibalism to Seduction - A Book of Food

by JoanSmith (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.26

  In HUNGRY FOR YOU, Joan Smith turns her attention to this infinitely intriguing. A collection of her own sharp, funny and stimulating essays on our attitudes to food and eating is accompanied and amplified by a fascinating selection of extracts from novels, tracts, songs, self-help books, poetry and biography. Her essays look at cannibalism and the strange imagination of the man-eating serial killers; at the politics of starvation and anorexia; at sexual 'appetite'; at taboos, and the connection between the stricture of Leviticus and the regimes of Rosemary Conley. Each essay is followed by a series of extracts: from Piers Paul Read's chilling account of cannibalism to Nora Ephron on the comforts of mashed potatoes; from the Princess of Wales talking about bulimia to Proust's voluptuous appreciation of the shape and colour of asparagus, and gems from Catullus, Madonna, Swift, Brian Keenan, Freud, and Lorrie.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.26

  This is a wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biographies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include Famine - anorexia, hunger strikers; Plenty - from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton; Punishment - force-feeding; Ostentation - politically extravagant meals; Sex - food before, during and after sex; Dislikes - school food, foreign food; and Passions - wonderful food.