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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Página 14
... milk , and sugar . I have allowed no sauce for 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 ...
... milk , and sugar . I have allowed no sauce for 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 ...
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... milk and sweetness ; vegetable oil ; butter , the dairy essence ; and the strange , worrisome mineral , salt . ( I chose lemon , not vinegar , for my salad dressing for several reasons : I usually prefer it and lemon goes well with ...
... milk and sweetness ; vegetable oil ; butter , the dairy essence ; and the strange , worrisome mineral , salt . ( I chose lemon , not vinegar , for my salad dressing for several reasons : I usually prefer it and lemon goes well with ...
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... milk : American livestock and poultry is fed and fattened on corn and cornstalks . Frozen meat and fish has a light corn starch coating on it to prevent excessive drying . The brown and golden colouring which constitutes the visual ...
... milk : American livestock and poultry is fed and fattened on corn and cornstalks . Frozen meat and fish has a light corn starch coating on it to prevent excessive drying . The brown and golden colouring which constitutes the visual ...
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... milk , poultry , cheese , meat , butter , and the rest - per person per day . The supermarket does not by any means represent all the uses of corn in our culture . If you live in North America- and even very possibly if you do not- the ...
... milk , poultry , cheese , meat , butter , and the rest - per person per day . The supermarket does not by any means represent all the uses of corn in our culture . If you live in North America- and even very possibly if you do not- the ...
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... milk was withdrawn and a diet of corn substituted . Kwashiorkor , caused by deficiency in protein , niacin , and amino acids , is still the main cause of child mortality in many parts of the world . What about the ash that American ...
... milk was withdrawn and a diet of corn substituted . Kwashiorkor , caused by deficiency in protein , niacin , and amino acids , is still the main cause of child mortality in many parts of the world . What about the ash that American ...
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