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A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink from A to Z (Oxford Reference S.)

A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink from A to Z (Oxford Reference S.)

by JohnAyto (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 396
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: Nov 1994
ISBN 10: 0192800256
ISBN 13: 9780192800251

Media Reviews
A book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways. --Copley
Newspapers
Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form. --Independent
An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information. --Observer

[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways. --Copley
Newspapers
Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form. --Independent
An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information. --Observer


[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways. --Copley
Newspapers
Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form. --Independent
An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information. --Observer

[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways. --Copley Newspapers
Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form. --Independent
An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information. --Observer


[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways. --Copley Newspapers


Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form. --Independent


An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information. --Observer


Author Bio

John Ayto is a freelance writer and author of many reference works including The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (with John Simpson), the Longman Register of New Words, and the Glutton's Glossary.