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Smith, Joan (1953-) - Hungry for you : essays and extracts

Title: Hungry for you : essays and extracts
Description: London : Chatto & Windus 1996. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; From the library of the noted food and wine critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xi. 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; This is a wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels. diaries and biographies. but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include 'Famine' - anorexia. hunger strikers; 'Plenty' - from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton; 'Punishment' - force-feeding; 'Ostentation' - politically extravagant meals; 'Sex' - food before. during and after sex; 'Dislikes' - school food. foreign food; and 'Passions' - wonderful food. Subjects; Food habits - Literary collections. Food - Social aspects - Literary collections. Food - Symbolic aspects - Literary collections. Cannibalism - Literary collections. Food habits. Food - Anecdotes. Literature - Special subjects - Food. Cookery / food & drink etc. Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Social Science / General. Language Arts & Discoplines / Rhetoric. Food ; Social aspects ; Food habits ; Food in literature ; Psychological aspects. Genre; Illustrated. ISBN: 0701162171.

Keywords: 0701162171

Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 228833