'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and
lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an
oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the love
of food' wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets, novelists, chefs
and gourmands before and after him would seem to agree. Collected
in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the
subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed
to whet every reader's appetite. Themed sections group together
poetry and prose on grapes and bottles, the ideal cuisine, hangover
cures and vivid vignettes of dinner-party behaviour, including Mrs
Gaskell eating peas with a knife. There are stories about food fit
for kings, a duchess's 'rumblings abdominal', fine dining, eating
abroad, cooking at home and gastronomic excesses. A section on food
and travel features Edmund Hillary's meal at the summit of Everest,
Ernest Shackleton's dish of penguin in the Antarctic and Joshua
Slocum on the unfortunate effects of cheese and plums while sailing
solo around the world. Also on the menu are limericks,
short-tempered cooks, recipes, fantasy food, special feasts, iron
rations, tips on opening oysters and the uses and abuses of coffee.
Featuring writers as diverse as Brillat-Savarin, Edward Lear, John
Keats, Collette, Charles Dickens, Maria Edgeworth and Marcel Proust
and interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a
perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers and epicurean
explorers.
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