Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary MeaOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2010 M06 29 - 352 páginas A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice). This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it. Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner represents a different course or garnish, which Margaret Visser handpicks from the most ordinary American dinner: among them corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad dressed in lemon juice and olive oil, and ice cream. Visser tells the story behind each of these foods and in the course of her inquiries reveals some unexpected treats: the history of Corn Flakes; the secret behind the more dissatisfactory California olives (they’re picked green, chemically blackened, and sterilized); and the fact that, in Africa, citrus fruits are eaten whole, rind and all. For food lovers of all kinds, unexpectedly entertaining book is a treasure of information from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Rituals of Dinner. “Rich in surprising facts, unexpected connections, and a well-documented outrage at what modern technology and agribusiness have done to purity and quality . . . A remarkable amount of information [presented] seamlessly and entertainingly.” —Library Journal |
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... Greek herbalists . I was soon to find that in order to answer the questions I had about onions , and to clear up all the uncertainties which would subsequently arise , I would have to search in at least eleven different collections of ...
... Greek herbalists . I was soon to find that in order to answer the questions I had about onions , and to clear up all the uncertainties which would subsequently arise , I would have to search in at least eleven different collections of ...
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... Greek , and the Haitian Indian term maïs may be translated as " the stuff of life . " The Indians observed that different types of corn could cross and produce offspring with characteristics derived from both parents . They believed ...
... Greek , and the Haitian Indian term maïs may be translated as " the stuff of life . " The Indians observed that different types of corn could cross and produce offspring with characteristics derived from both parents . They believed ...
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... Greek word for salt is hals . Derivatives from this word often substitute s for h , which is why the Romans called it sal and we say " salt . " Salt names abound for western European towns , rivers , and hills , and these may be clues ...
... Greek word for salt is hals . Derivatives from this word often substitute s for h , which is why the Romans called it sal and we say " salt . " Salt names abound for western European towns , rivers , and hills , and these may be clues ...
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... Greeks thought meant " sea - foam - born . " In European folk custom , impotence has traditionally been cured by a hilarious , bawdy salting of the disob- liging member by a crowd of women . Often priests or mourners or people who are ...
... Greeks thought meant " sea - foam - born . " In European folk custom , impotence has traditionally been cured by a hilarious , bawdy salting of the disob- liging member by a crowd of women . Often priests or mourners or people who are ...
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