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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... crop uniformity and genetic engi- neering ; the salting and pollution of the desperately precious fertile areas of the earth ; the destruction of cultural tradition and the replace- ment of it by - what else ? - replaceability ...
... crop uniformity and genetic engi- neering ; the salting and pollution of the desperately precious fertile areas of the earth ; the destruction of cultural tradition and the replace- ment of it by - what else ? - replaceability ...
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... crop among corns all over the world today is dent . It is named after the dimple in the top edge of every kernel , which is formed because of the shrinkage of the soft starch in the endosperm . Dent corn is sweet and starchy - the most ...
... crop among corns all over the world today is dent . It is named after the dimple in the top edge of every kernel , which is formed because of the shrinkage of the soft starch in the endosperm . Dent corn is sweet and starchy - the most ...
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... crops . But the fertilizers encourage weeds as well as corn , so that weed - killers have to be assiduously applied . In a healthy , weed - cleared , and fertilized cornfield , the plants grow extremely quickly . Growth slows down ...
... crops . But the fertilizers encourage weeds as well as corn , so that weed - killers have to be assiduously applied . In a healthy , weed - cleared , and fertilized cornfield , the plants grow extremely quickly . Growth slows down ...
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... crop before any attempt was made to sort through the jumble of growing plants and remove the unwanted growth . The Indians did things differently . Round many of the settlements on the eastern seaboard , fields were laid out with ...
... crop before any attempt was made to sort through the jumble of growing plants and remove the unwanted growth . The Indians did things differently . Round many of the settlements on the eastern seaboard , fields were laid out with ...
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... crop of several civilizations , as it did in pre - Columbian America . The Indians sensed , too , that the ash was for man , to supply his bodily need : when they offered their sacred grain to the gods they never added ash . The ...
... crop of several civilizations , as it did in pre - Columbian America . The Indians sensed , too , that the ash was for man , to supply his bodily need : when they offered their sacred grain to the gods they never added ash . The ...
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