The Penguin Companion to Food

by Alan Davidson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.34

  This Penguin Companion covers the nature and history of foodstuffs worldwide, starting from aardvark and ending with zuppa inglese. It is compiled with especially strong coverage of European and in particular British cookery and contains no recipes. Much of the material in it was previously published in Davidson's Petits Propos Culinaires and in the proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.87

  This is an entertaining celebration of food in all its forms, written by a food expert, and with contributions from specialists across the globe. It contains information on just about every foodstuff and on a multitude of dishes, from angel food cake to zabaglione; devotes over 120 entries to national and regional cusines past and present, including Roman diets and white-trash food; and explores such miscellaneous topics as culinary terms and cookery writers.