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The Food Lover's Treasury (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd (9 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0711229120
  • ISBN-13: 978-0711229129
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 389,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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With its plum-pudding of quotations and extracts, an anthology that odes what every good anthology should do - be entertaining and throw-up new reading experiences and new authors to add to the list. --Publishing News

A perfect present for those father-in-law types you never know what to buy for. --York Evening Press

Books for Giving. Cooks might like to receive the very fine A Food Lover's Treasury. --Guardian


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'I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it all night.' Henry Miller This is a book about food, and the food that's in books. Tucked away in many great literary works are some essential truths on the subject of consumption: that someone is always disappointed when a tart is halved; that roasted udder is best kept a once-in-a-lifetime experience; that oranges should always be eaten in private; that toast is criminally under-appreciated, though even James Bond can't get enough of it. Other less well-known truths include the fact that kippers can be cooked on an iron; gravy expectation is high amongst commercial gentlemen; and every child at some time sees their name written in treacle. These extracts - some hilarious, some tragic, some downright bizarre - demonstrate that food is one of the great overlooked themes of literature, and pursuing this theme is a good excuse to re-read some classics. Each of the quotations if fully references, so that the reader can 'source' the favoured titbits, and seek out further treats for themselves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars MAY I HAVE SECONDS, PLEASE?, 9 Oct 2008
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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All of us have opinions stated or unstated, mumbled to ourselves or shouted from the rooftops. There is one subject on which everyone has an opinion and that is food. Polite diners may cautiously use their forks to push aside an unwanted slice of mango while a baby who cannot yet speak can utter a distinct blagh as he spits out his first taste of peas. Yes, opinions about food are everywhere, and most delightfully collected in A Food Lover's Treasury, a book about the references to food that are found in literature.

There are over 400 entries, some as brief and clear as Samuel Johnson's, "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown as good for nothing." Others opine at length, a bit lyrically about their favorite dishes. In Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence was ardent in his praise of vegetable shop displays on a "dark, greasy, night-stricken street," writing of how the street "seems to beam with these vegetables, all this fresh delicate flesh of luminous vegetables piled there in the air..." Yes, we are passionate about food!

Entries are organized in nine chapters beginning with Food Philosophy through Local Delicacies and concluding with Manners and Morals. Readers may well find them themselves tempted as I was to go back to a favorite book and locate the quote in the context of the narrative.

That was good fun and so is the reading of A Food Lover's Treasury. Tuck your napkin in and enjoy!

- Gail Cooke
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