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 16
... thought of in Europe as an Anglo - Saxon idiosyncrasy . The French , for example , still have a tendency to class corn as mainly chicken - feed ; the Italians like it ground into something resembling the porridges which were the staple ...
... thought of in Europe as an Anglo - Saxon idiosyncrasy . The French , for example , still have a tendency to class corn as mainly chicken - feed ; the Italians like it ground into something resembling the porridges which were the staple ...
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... a willingness to question passionately matters which used to be thought too basic for words . I think the reason for this is that we are fighting back with an altogether healthy urge to recapture ancient but 20 Much Depends On Dinner.
... a willingness to question passionately matters which used to be thought too basic for words . I think the reason for this is that we are fighting back with an altogether healthy urge to recapture ancient but 20 Much Depends On Dinner.
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... thought of by the Indians as one of the prime symbols of the female , and it proclaimed the maternal aspects of the divine corn plant . Sweet corn- the type which we are having to open our meal - must be cooked or frozen immediately ...
... thought of by the Indians as one of the prime symbols of the female , and it proclaimed the maternal aspects of the divine corn plant . Sweet corn- the type which we are having to open our meal - must be cooked or frozen immediately ...
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... thought of as having been husked , like a corn cob from its sheath . The head was kept on a special skull rack until its flesh dropped off and only the skull remained , indistinguishable from numerous others like it . Most of the ...
... thought of as having been husked , like a corn cob from its sheath . The head was kept on a special skull rack until its flesh dropped off and only the skull remained , indistinguishable from numerous others like it . Most of the ...
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... thought that corn sprinkled across a doorway should be sufficient to keep an enemy at bay : pathetically , they tried it when the Spaniards came - the people who had no respect for maize . The Indians had no traction animals and no ...
... thought that corn sprinkled across a doorway should be sufficient to keep an enemy at bay : pathetically , they tried it when the Spaniards came - the people who had no respect for maize . The Indians had no traction animals and no ...
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