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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... human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food , and plotting , working , and fighting to obtain it , than we have in any other pursuit . As soon as we can count on a food supply ( and so take food ...
... human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food , and plotting , working , and fighting to obtain it , than we have in any other pursuit . As soon as we can count on a food supply ( and so take food ...
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... human race in its wake , constrained us , enticed us , harried , and goaded us in its own particular fashion . These nine foods among them require the consideration of mighty problems which especially afflict the modern world . Some of ...
... human race in its wake , constrained us , enticed us , harried , and goaded us in its own particular fashion . These nine foods among them require the consideration of mighty problems which especially afflict the modern world . Some of ...
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... human responses such as participatory attention , receptivity , and appreciation . We have learned well the lessons about the stupidities of superstition , of misplaced , because ignorant , wonder . It is time now to think about whether ...
... human responses such as participatory attention , receptivity , and appreciation . We have learned well the lessons about the stupidities of superstition , of misplaced , because ignorant , wonder . It is time now to think about whether ...
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... human intervention necessary in corn as we now know it . One grass which looks as if it could conceivably have developed into corn , and which still exists in the wild because each of its kernels is enclosed in its own hard self ...
... human intervention necessary in corn as we now know it . One grass which looks as if it could conceivably have developed into corn , and which still exists in the wild because each of its kernels is enclosed in its own hard self ...
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... human fin- gernail . How we do not know , but by the next identifiable stage , three thousand years ago at the latest , the corn cob , presumably because of intervention by Indian farmers , had increased in size to ten centimeters ( 4 ...
... human fin- gernail . How we do not know , but by the next identifiable stage , three thousand years ago at the latest , the corn cob , presumably because of intervention by Indian farmers , had increased in size to ten centimeters ( 4 ...
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