The Virago Book of Food - The Joy of Eating (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781860499050
Synopsis
Edited by Jill Foulston.
Beatrix Potter wove one of her most malicious tales around the roly-poly pudding. Colette counted the nuts she would pick before falling asleep in the French countryside. Dorothy Wordsworth noted her pie-making sessions in her diary and Anne Frank observed the eating habits of her companions in hiding.
Food is a constant in our lives, and it has always been a basic ingredient of women's writing - in household books, cookbooks, diaries, letters and fiction.
In this, the first anthology to concentrate on international food writing by women, you can go on a picnic with Monica Ali, learn about Frida Kahlo's wedding feast and indulge your appetites with Edwidge Danticat and Barbara Pym.
Try making Elisabeth Luard's Afghan Betrothal Custard, Martha Washington's marzipan birds or Nigella Lawson's favourite comfort food. And why not sneak into the literary kitchens of Banana Yoshimoto, Emily Brontë and Angela Carter?
Something's cooking . . .
Details
- Format : Thicker 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Non-Fiction - Cookbooks, Food & Drink
- Published : 2006 (This Edition 2009)
- ISBN : 9781860499050
- SKU : B002028
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
". . . on the menu, however, where other things too: history, tradition, community, connection, anger, humour, and just about anything else worth conveying" - Goodreads Review.
The Editor
A former commissioning editor for Virago, Little Brown and Penguin, Jill Foulston has worked with some of the most exciting names in contemporary fiction – among them Sarah Waters and Michelle Lovric – as well as classic authors such as Paul Bowles and Muriel Spark.
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