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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... eaten , with whom and when , and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it- is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies . Changing ( or unchanging ) food choices and presentations ...
... eaten , with whom and when , and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it- is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies . Changing ( or unchanging ) food choices and presentations ...
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... eaten onions several times since the first glance through the catalogue ; presumably preparing those dinners jogged my memory . ) The work , with its pleasantly punning title , is an excellent and useful one , all about breeding ...
... eaten onions several times since the first glance through the catalogue ; presumably preparing those dinners jogged my memory . ) The work , with its pleasantly punning title , is an excellent and useful one , all about breeding ...
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... eaten at many different stages , and is often preferred when immature . This adds inestimable value to the plant , as long as modern machinery does not dominate the harvest , for it means that the fruit of a single sowing of corn plants ...
... eaten at many different stages , and is often preferred when immature . This adds inestimable value to the plant , as long as modern machinery does not dominate the harvest , for it means that the fruit of a single sowing of corn plants ...
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... eaten daily : the Indians generally liked it best of all types , and most Africans still do . Flour corn is grown little outside of South and Central America , where it is still prized for the ease with which it may be ground by hand ...
... eaten daily : the Indians generally liked it best of all types , and most Africans still do . Flour corn is grown little outside of South and Central America , where it is still prized for the ease with which it may be ground by hand ...
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... eaten together and always planted together : in Iroquois myth they were represented as three in- separable sisters . When the plants emerged from the hill , the corn grew straight and strong , the beans climbed the corn , and the squash ...
... eaten together and always planted together : in Iroquois myth they were represented as three in- separable sisters . When the plants emerged from the hill , the corn grew straight and strong , the beans climbed the corn , and the squash ...
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