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Zusatztext 'This is an extraordinary little book! unputdownable! written in the most lyrical! flowing style which paints vivid pictures and! at the same time! punches into place hard facts that stop you dead in your track' So wrote Roy Strong about Mark Kurlansky's Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World! a work which demonstrated that food can be as important and as interesting as it is edible. Now the winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history - from the fifth century BC to the present day. Presented by subject - including 'Food and Sex'! 'Bread'! 'Rants' and 'Dessert' - and illustrated with Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings as well as classic photographs! this wonderful collection! like the very best meal! is varied! delicious and uniquely satisfying.- Informationen zum Autor Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World! The Basque History of the World and Salt: A World History; the novels Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue and Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts; and the short story collection The White Man in the Tree . He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. Klappentext The winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history - from the fifth century BC to the present day. Zusammenfassung The winner of the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award leads is on a dazzling culinary tour around the world and through history - from the fifth century BC to the present day.
