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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... grown little outside of South and Central America , where it is still prized for the ease with which it may be ground by hand . The corn - grinding metate stone and the hand - held stone called a mano are common sights all over South ...
... grown little outside of South and Central America , where it is still prized for the ease with which it may be ground by hand . The corn - grinding metate stone and the hand - held stone called a mano are common sights all over South ...
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... grown for the long bristles which sprout from its ears ; bristles which created a minor household revo- lution amidst all the thunderous transformations of housekeeping which occurred in that century . Really efficient brooms were mass ...
... grown for the long bristles which sprout from its ears ; bristles which created a minor household revo- lution amidst all the thunderous transformations of housekeeping which occurred in that century . Really efficient brooms were mass ...
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... grown much in the Battle Creek area . Now the company has found out how to get the same colour with the more easily available yellow corn : you first bleach the kernels white , then proceed . Corn flakes ' connotations for us are of ...
... grown much in the Battle Creek area . Now the company has found out how to get the same colour with the more easily available yellow corn : you first bleach the kernels white , then proceed . Corn flakes ' connotations for us are of ...
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... grown on ground pumped full of nitrogen and phosphate . But finally truth is revealed and tragic knowledge achieved : it becomes apparent that the forest's topsoil - that topsoil which had been preserved , waited on , and respected by ...
... grown on ground pumped full of nitrogen and phosphate . But finally truth is revealed and tragic knowledge achieved : it becomes apparent that the forest's topsoil - that topsoil which had been preserved , waited on , and respected by ...
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... grown in the United States . Sheer variety in the plant kingdom turns out to be a fact of inestimable value for man . The Indians , as we recall , had revered variety . The war which modern North Americans have waged against the ...
... grown in the United States . Sheer variety in the plant kingdom turns out to be a fact of inestimable value for man . The Indians , as we recall , had revered variety . The war which modern North Americans have waged against the ...
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