Lobscouse and Spotted Dog - Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century dishes as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Toasted Cheese, Sucking Pig, Treacle-Dowdy, and, of course, Spotted Dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as well as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies."[A] splendid cookbook...graced with erudite bits of naval and gastronomical history....Deftly researched and written in prose nearly as funny as O'Brian's own."-Publishers Weekly "A thoroughly readable cookbook, as well as a useful appendix to a great series of novels and a newly opened window into a time now nearly 200 years gone."-San Jose Mercury News

About the author

Anne Chotzinoff Grossman is a writer and musician.Lisa Grossman Thomas owns and operates a computer consulting company.One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Summary

"A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology."—Washington Post

Product details

• Authors: Anne Chotzinoff Grossman, Grossman Anne Chotzinoff, Lisa Grossman Thomas, Thomas Lisa Grossman
• Assisted by: Patrick O'Brian (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393320947
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32094-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 473 g
• Illustrations: Illustrated
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General cookery books, basic cookery books; COOKING / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, General cookery & recipes, General cookery and recipes, C 1700 To C 1800