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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... Chicken : From Jungle Fowl to Patties 115 FIVE Rice : The Tyrant with a Soul 155 SIX . Lettuce : The Vicissitudes of Salad 192 SEVEN Olive Oil : A Tree and its Fruits 224 EIGHT Lemon Juice : A Sour Note 259 NINE Ice Cream : Cold Comfort ...
... Chicken : From Jungle Fowl to Patties 115 FIVE Rice : The Tyrant with a Soul 155 SIX . Lettuce : The Vicissitudes of Salad 192 SEVEN Olive Oil : A Tree and its Fruits 224 EIGHT Lemon Juice : A Sour Note 259 NINE Ice Cream : Cold Comfort ...
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... chicken and rice , hoping that my guests would be satisfied with more butter , salt , and perhaps the chicken drippings . I could also have included the wildly improbable saga of pepper . Chapters on the minimal " extras " and the ...
... chicken and rice , hoping that my guests would be satisfied with more butter , salt , and perhaps the chicken drippings . I could also have included the wildly improbable saga of pepper . Chapters on the minimal " extras " and the ...
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... serves grapefruit or soup , chicken or meat , potatoes or rice , vegetables ( often two ) , and stewed fruit or ice cream or pudding or melon . Our menu clearly keeps to the pattern What Shall We Have for Dinner ? 15.
... serves grapefruit or soup , chicken or meat , potatoes or rice , vegetables ( often two ) , and stewed fruit or ice cream or pudding or melon . Our menu clearly keeps to the pattern What Shall We Have for Dinner ? 15.
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... chicken , rice , and two vegetables ( broccoli and small carrots ) all on one plate , with a thin non- coating gravy , and baked Alaska . The construct is palpably a relative of the one I offer here , although there are differences ...
... chicken , rice , and two vegetables ( broccoli and small carrots ) all on one plate , with a thin non- coating gravy , and baked Alaska . The construct is palpably a relative of the one I offer here , although there are differences ...
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... chicken might be roasted or fried , depending on how formal the occasion is to be : roasted is far more prestigious than fried . The English ( and hence the American ) tradition with roasts is still to bring in the whole bird or joint ...
... chicken might be roasted or fried , depending on how formal the occasion is to be : roasted is far more prestigious than fried . The English ( and hence the American ) tradition with roasts is still to bring in the whole bird or joint ...
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