Testicles - Balls in Cooking and Culture (Paperback)

This sparkling book was first published in France in 2005 and has been magnificently translated into English by the food writer and historian Giles MacDonogh. It is part cookery book, part dictionary and part cultural study of testicles: human and animal. Their culinary use is the bedrock, although it would be impossible to ignore the wider implications of these anatomical jewels. Blandine Vie has a delicious way with words, and delight in exploring the furthest corners of our vocabulary, both scurrilous and euphemistic. The book opens with a discussion of balls, of pairs, of virility and the general significance thereof; it then delves more deeply into the culinary use of testicles, in history and across cultures; there follows a recipe section that ranges the continents in search of good dishes, from lamb's fry with mushrooms, to balls with citrus fruit, to the criadillas beloved of bullfighters, and Potatoes Leontine, stuffed with cocks' stones. (There are, however, no recipes for cannibals.) To close, there is an extensive dictionary or glossary, drawing on many languages, which illustrates the linguistic richness that attaches to this part of the body. It is in this section particularly that the ingenuity and intelligence of the translator is on display as he converts the French original into something entirely accessible to the English reader.

General

Imprint:	Prospect Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	December 2011
Authors:	Blandine Vie
Translators:	Giles MacDonogh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - With flaps
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-903018-83-5
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General cookery > Cookery by ingredient > General Books > Food & Drink > General cookery > Cookery by ingredient > General
LSN:	1-903018-83-8
Barcode:	9781903018835

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