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1995, ed Harlan Walker
320 pages; 170x250mm; b & w illus; paperback
ISBN 0 907325 72 6 £25 |
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This volume is especially enticing, with articles on famous
and not so famous cooks, worldwide, and pieces that discuss the impact
on our eating habits by people who were not cooks at all - for instance,
an essay on Alexander the great by Andrew Dalby, the author of Siren Feasts,
the acclaimed historian of ancient Greek gastronomy. Other subjects and
authors include Barbara Wheaton on Carême, Helen Cliffors on Oxford
College Cooks, Professor Nicholas Kurti on Count Rumford, Henri Gault on
Nouvelle Cuisine, and Colin Spencer on the early vegetarian Thomas Tyron.
In all, 45 essays.
The series of Symposium documents now extends to more than a dozen,
a precious resource for food historians and all those concerned wth the
academic study of eating habits. The lack of any British journal or periodcal
specialising in the subject makes these regular volumes the more significant. |
