This work draws on the considerable literature of food and wine writing from biblical feasts to the present day by way of Proust, Dickens, Thackeray, John Evelyn, Sidney Smith, Keats, Chaucer, Swinburne, Yeats, and Virginia Woolfe. There are food-related lines by E.E. Cummings and Auden, extracts from diarists like Parson Woodforde, and meals from Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Margaret Drabble, Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout and Julian Barnes. It also includes essays on food and drink by ...
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This work draws on the considerable literature of food and wine writing from biblical feasts to the present day by way of Proust, Dickens, Thackeray, John Evelyn, Sidney Smith, Keats, Chaucer, Swinburne, Yeats, and Virginia Woolfe. There are food-related lines by E.E. Cummings and Auden, extracts from diarists like Parson Woodforde, and meals from Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Margaret Drabble, Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout and Julian Barnes. It also includes essays on food and drink by Raymond Sokolov, Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, and an Italo Calvino story on cannibalism.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780140232592.
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