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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... planting , storing and classifying not only onions but also garlic , leeks , chives and " other alliums . " There was , in 1963 , no agreement among scientists about how onions make eyes weep . ( During the following decade the complex ...
... planting , storing and classifying not only onions but also garlic , leeks , chives and " other alliums . " There was , in 1963 , no agreement among scientists about how onions make eyes weep . ( During the following decade the complex ...
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... plant is corn oil , which is not only a cooking fat but is important in margarine ( butter , remember , is also corn ) . Corn oil is an essential ingredient in soap , in insecticides ( all vegetables and fruits in a supermarket have ...
... plant is corn oil , which is not only a cooking fat but is important in margarine ( butter , remember , is also corn ) . Corn oil is an essential ingredient in soap , in insecticides ( all vegetables and fruits in a supermarket have ...
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... plant as it was when the Indians grew it , before the white men arrived in America - or it is used as a generic , more " botanical " term . American Indians , in their many different languages , always spoke of corn as " Our Mother ...
... plant as it was when the Indians grew it , before the white men arrived in America - or it is used as a generic , more " botanical " term . American Indians , in their many different languages , always spoke of corn as " Our Mother ...
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... PLANT WORKS Maize is a giant grass which bears unusually large seed , even for a giant . Each corn kernel is really a fruit with an oily germ or seed surrounded by its starchy nutrients and enclosed in a skin or hull . The plant is , in ...
... PLANT WORKS Maize is a giant grass which bears unusually large seed , even for a giant . Each corn kernel is really a fruit with an oily germ or seed surrounded by its starchy nutrients and enclosed in a skin or hull . The plant is , in ...
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... plant adjusts the length of its own cobs according to the likelihood of the amount of grain it will be called upon to house . The factors which the plant mysteriously takes into account include the density of the plant population in a ...
... plant adjusts the length of its own cobs according to the likelihood of the amount of grain it will be called upon to house . The factors which the plant mysteriously takes into account include the density of the plant population in a ...
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