A food lover's treasury.

9780711229129

A food lover's treasury.

Rugg, Julie and Lynda Murphy.

Francis Press

2008

239 pages

$16.95

Hardcover

PN56

Authors Murphy and Rugg, who profess to disparate degrees of competence in the kitchen, offer a fully-referenced collection of extracts and bits of history about food and its preparation. The quotations and quotes from literature come from sources as diverse as Louisa May Alcott and Samuel Johnson. One quotation suggests that oranges should only be eaten in private while another more obscure bit of advice suggests that kippers can be cooked on an iron. The book is an amusing and sometimes outlandish romp through our relationship with food.

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